Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Jeremiah the Prophet
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
Jeremiah 1:5
and before you were born I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Chapter 2: Israel trades living water for cisterns that are broken
The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. Israel was holy to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest. All who ate of it became guilty; evil came upon them, says the Lord.”
Jeremiah 2:1–3
Chapter 3
Israel the whore
“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the harlot with many lovers; and would you return to me? says the Lord. Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile harlotry.
Jeremiah 3:1–2
Chapter 3
Ark of the Covenant
...they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind, or be remembered, or missed; it shall not be made again.
Jeremiah 3:12–18
Chapter 4
God’s pain!
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet...
Jeremiah 4:19–23
Chapter 4
Tohu and Bohu (chaotic wasteland)
Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep, - but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,
Genesis 1:2 Rotherham's
For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it a chaos, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:18
or thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black; for I have spoken, I have purposed; I have not relented nor will I turn back.”
Jeremiah 4:27–28
Chapter 5 Yahweh brings nations against Israel that will eat their sons and daughters!
Behold, I am bringing upon you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, says the Lord. It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say. Their quiver is like an open tomb, they are all mighty men. They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall destroy with the sword.”
Jeremiah 5:15–19
Chapter 6: Judah burns their sons and daughters as an offering to foreign gods.
“For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. And they have built the high place of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jeremiah 7:30–31
Chapter 7: God’s grief is beyond healing
He asks, “Is there no balm in Gilead?”
My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me. Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 8:18–22
Chapter 8: Yahweh says: “O that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears”
O that I had in the desert a wayfarer’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them!
Jeremiah 9:1–4 and Jeremiah 9:13–16
Chapter 9: God’s wound is grievous, but He says it is an affliction He must bear!
Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.”
Jeremiah 10:5–21
Chapter 10: God says of Israel: “I hate her!”
My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.
Jeremiah 12:7–8
Chapter 11: God says He will weep bitterly in secret for Israel!
But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 13:17
Chapter 12: God said: “Let my eyes run down with tears night and day without ceasing!”
“You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is smitten with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.
Jeremiah 14:17
Chapter 13: “My anger will burn forever against Israel.”
I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever.
Jeremiah 15:14
Chapter 14: God says He will bring Israel back from the lands He has driven them.
First He will send fishers to fish them back, then hunters to drive them back. Watch for resurgence of anti-semitism.
but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
“Behold, I am sending for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall catch them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 16:15–16
Chapter 15: “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt”
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:9–10
Chapter 16: “I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and of their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of their neighbor”
And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; every one who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters. And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’
Jeremiah 19:4–9
Chapter 17: “I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He shall reign as king.”
“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
Jeremiah 23:5–6
Chapter 18: Yahweh has an indictment against the nations
He is entering into judgment against all flesh. Evil is going forth from nation to nation.
You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: ‘The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:30–33
Chapter 19: The Kingdom age
The city shall be rebuilt upon its mound and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
“Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt upon its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
Jeremiah 30:18–22
Chapter 20: The New Covenant!
Chapter 21: “I will put the fear of me in their hearts!”
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for their own good and the good of their children after them. 40 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
Jeremiah 32:39–42
Chapter 22: The righteous Branch (Christ the King shall reign)
In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring forth for David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:14–22
Chapter 23: Hear the plan that Yahweh has made against Edom (Esau)
"Jacob I love, but Esau I HATE" and “The people with whom Yahweh is angry forever”
Therefore hear the plan which the Lord has made against Edom and the purposes which he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.
Jeremiah 49:20–22
Malachi 1:1–4; Romans 9:13; Obadiah 1:9–18
The people with whom God is angry forever.