Individual Passages
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1:1-19 Jeremiah's Call
2:1-25:38 Judgment for Idolatry
2:1-3:5 Accusation Against Israel
2:1-4 Israel's Good Beginning
2:5-8 Israel Forsook and Ignored God
2:9-19 Twofold Accusation Against Israel
2:20-30 Israel is Arrogant and Unrepentant
2:31-3:5 Illustrations of Israel's Rebellion
3:6-4:4 Call for Judah to Repent
3:6-13 Judah is Worse than Israel
3:14-20 Invitation to Return to the Lord
3:21-4:2 Call to Repent and Return
4:3-4 Circumcise Your Hearts
4:5-6:30 Announcement of Judgment
4:5-10 Destruction from the North
4:11-26 Desolation from a Whirlwind
4:27-31 The Land Will Mourn and Groan
5:1-6 Failed Search for One Upright Person
5:7-13 The People Have Forsaken the Lord
5:14-19 God is Bringing a Nation Against Them
5:20-31 The People Deserve This Punishment
6:1-8 Warning Announcement of Jerusalem's Destruction
6:7-15 The People Reject God's Word
6:16-21 The People are Reaping Right Judgment
6:22-30 The Army From the North
7:1-9:22 Proclamation of Judgment at the Temple
7:1-19 The Temple Wont' Protect Idolaters
7:20-29 Sacrifices Won't Protect the Disobedient
7:30-8:3 The Crimes and Punishments of Judah
8:4-12 All Practice Deceit
8:13-17 God Has Doomed Them
8:18-9:6 There is No Healing for the People
9:7-16 God Will Test and Punish Them
9:17-22 The Women Will Weep Because of the Destruction
9:23-24 Boast in the Lord
9:23-24 Boast in the Lord
9:25-11:17 Judgment on the Nations, including Israel
9:25-26 The Nations Will Be Punished
10:1-16 God is Greater Than Idols
10:23-25 Jeremiah Prays for Judgment on the Nations
11:1-17 Israel Has Broken the Covenant
11:18-23 God Protects Jeremiah from His Enemies
11:18-23 God Protects Jeremiah From His Enemies
12:1-14:18 Punishment for Injustice and Idolatry
12:1-4 Jeremiah Complains About Injustice
12:5-17 It Will Get Worse Before It Will Get Better
13:1-11 Judah Will Be Ruined Like a Linen Belt
13:12-14 God Will Fill the Land With Drunkenness
13:15-27 Punishment is Coming Because of Idolatry
14:1-10 Judgment of Drought & Famine
14:11-18 The Lying Prophets Will Be Punished
14:19-15:21 Jeremiah Unsuccessfully Intercedes for Judah
14:19-22 Prayer For Mercy
15:1-10 God Will Not Have Pity on Judah
15:11-14 God Will Punish For a Purpose
15:15-18 Jeremiah Pleads for His Own Protection
15:19-21 Call to Repentance and Steadfastness
16:1-17:18 Message of Judgment
16:1-9 Jeremiah's Lifestyle to Demonstrate Destruction
16:10-13 Message of Destruction and Its Reasons
16:14-15 Message of Hope of Restoration After Punishment
16:16-18 Warning of Punishment
16:19-21 God Will Teach the Nations
17:1-4 Judah's Sin and Its Result
17:5-13 Trust in Man vs. Trust in God
17:14-18 Jeremiah's Prayer for Deliverance
17:19-20:18 Jeremiah's Proclamation of Judgment and its Reception
17:19-27 Breaking and Keeping the Sabbath
18:1-12 Vision at the Potter's House
18:13-17 Accusation and Punishment
18:18-23 Plot Against Jeremiah and Prayer
19:1-15 Prophecy of Broken Jar
20:1-6 Jeremiah Prophesies Against a Priest
20:7-18 Jeremiah Complains and Worships
21:1-23:8 The Kings of Judah
21:1-7 Prophecy About Zedekiah the King
21:8-14 Warning and Prophecy Against the People of Judah
22:1-10 Prophecy Against the King of Judah
22:11-17 Prophecy Against Shallum Son of Josiah
22:18-23 Prophecy Against Jehoiakim
22:24-30 Prophecy Against Jehoiachin
23:1-8 The Promise of a Branch for David
23:9-40 Against False Prophets
23:9-15 Prophecy Against the Lying Prophets
23:16-24 Warning Against False Prophets
23:25-32 Judgment on False Prophets
23:33-40 Disgrace on False Prophets & the People Who Seek Them
24:1-25:14 The Exiles in Babylon
24:1-10 Prophecy of Baskets of Figs
25:1-11 Verdict of Judgment via Babylon for 70 Years
25:12-14 Verdict of Judgment on Babylon at the end of 70 Years
25:15-38 Judgment from Babylon
25:15-31 Judgment of the Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations
25:32-38 Prophecy of Judgment and Disaster
26:1-28:17 Biographical Interlude
26:1-24 Jeremiah Threatened with Death
26:1-9 Jeremiah Proclaims the Word and is Arrested
26:12-16 Some Try to Kill Jeremiah
26:17-24 The Elders Protect Jeremiah from Death
27:1-22 Oracle of a Yoke
27:1-11 Oracle Counseling Surrender to Nebuchadnezzar
27:12-15 Jeremiah Delivered This Oracle to Zedekiah
27:16-22 Jeremiah Delivered This Oracle to All the People
28:1-17 Jeremiah vs. Hananiah
28:1-4 Hananiah Falsely Prophesies Victory
28:5-11 Jeremiah Mistakenly Believes This False Prophecy
28:12-17 Oracle Rejecting and Punishing Hananiah's False Prophecy
Consolation and Hope
29:1-23 Letter to the Exiles
29:1-3 Jeremiah Sent a Letter to the Exiles
29:4-9 Settle in Babylon and Seek the Prosperity of That City
29:10-14 After 70 Years, Will Return Because of God's Plan
29:15-19 Those Still in Jerusalem Will Be Judged
29:20-23 False Prophets Will Be Punished
29:24-32 Message to Shemaiah
29:24-32 Message to Shemaiah
30:1-31:14 Promise of Restoration
30:1-11 Promise of Restoration
30:12-17 You Deserve Your PUnishemnt, But I Will Restore
30:18-24 Promised Restoration
31:1-6 Just Like the Past, I Will Be With You
31:7-14 I Will Bring Them Back to the Land
31:15-40 The New Covenant
31:15-22 The Mourning for Sin Will Be Completed
31:23-30 I Will Watch Over My People For Blessing
31:31-34 Promise of a New Covenant
31:35-37 Oath Certifying the New Covenant Promise
31:38-40 The City Will Be Rebuilt
32:1-44 Jeremiah Buys a Field as Symbol of Everlasting Covenant
32:1-5 Jeremiah Imprisoned as The City Beseiged
32:6-15 Jeremiah Bought a Field as a Sign of Restoration
32:16-25 Prayer of Hope Regarding the Field
32:26-35 The City Will Be Captured Because of Idolatry
32:36-44 Promise of Restoration and an Everlasting Covenant
33:1-13 Restoration - Life From Death
33:1-9 The City Will Experience Death, then Healing
33:10-13 The Desolate Place Will Be Inhabited Again
33:14-26 Promise of a Branch
33:14-18 Promise of a Branch from David's Line
33:19-26 Oath Certifying the Promise of a Branch
34:1-45:5 Biographical Interlude
34:1-39:18 Failure of Leadership
34:1-22 Hypocritical Freeing of Slaves
34:1-7 Jeremiah Gave a Message to King Zedekiah
34:8-22 Message of Judgment for Hypocritical Freeing of Slaves
35:1-19 Lesson from the Recabites
35:1-11 The Recabites Faithfully Followed their Forefather's Tradition
35:12-16 Lesson - Obedience to Tradition vs. Disobedience to God
35:17-19 Punishment For the People, Blessing for the Recabites
36:1-32 God's Word on a Scroll is Stronger than the King's Word
36:1-10 Jeremiah Dictates a Scroll and Baruch Proclaims It
36:11-26 the King Burned the Scroll
36:27-32 Scroll Duplicated, Adding Punishment For the King
37:1-38:28 Jeremiah is Imprisoned and Rescued Twice
37:1-10 Zedekiah Warned that the Babylonians Would Win
37:11-16 Jeremiah Arrested and Put in a Dungeon
37:17-21 Jeremiah Tells the King Babylon Will Win
38:1-6 Jeremiah is Thrown Into a Cistern
38:7-13 Jeremiah is Rescued From the Cistern
38:14-28 Jeremiah Gives the King Advice, and is Protected
39:1-18 The Fall of Jerusalem
39:1-10 The City Destroyed and the King Captured
39:11-18 Jeremiah and Another Faithful Man Rescued
40:1-45:5 Failure After the Fall of Jerusalem
40:1-43:13 The People Flee to Egypt
40:1-6 Jeremiah Was Set Free
40:7-12 The Jews Prospered in Judah Under Babylon's Governor
40:13-41:15 The Governor Was Assassinated and Chaos Came to Judah
41:16-18 Some Fled to Egypt
42:1-22 Blessing if They Stay, Warning if they Go to Egypt
43:1-7 The People Disobeyed and Went to Egypt
43:8-13 Prophecy Against Egypt and Those Who Went There
44:1-30 Judgment for Idolatry
44:1-14 Message of Judgment for Idolatry
44:15-23 People Rejected God's Message and Persist in Idolatry
44:24-30 God's Rebuke and Message of Judgment
45:1-5 Message to Baruch, No Self-Pity in Judgment
46:1-51:64 Against the Nations
46:1 Intro to Messages Concerning the Nations
46:2-28 Concerning Egypt
46:2-12 Concerning Pharaoh Neco and Defeat at Carchemesh
46:13-26 Concerning Babylon's Destruction of Egypt
46:27-28 Hope for Israel in Midst of Egypt's Punishment
47:1-7 Concerning Philistines
49:23-27 Concerning Damascus
49:28-33 Concerning Kedar and Hazor
50:1-51:64 Concerning Babylon
50:1-17 Babylon Will Be Conquered
50:18-32 God is Against Babylon
50:33-40 God Protects Israel, But Destroys Babylon
50:41-46 God's Plan for Babylon's Destruction
51:1-23 God Commands Babylon's Destruction
51:24-32 God Will Repay Babylon For What They Did
51:33-35 Blood Upon Babylon
51:36-57 Babylon Will Fall
51:58-64 Jeremiah Sent This Message to Babylon
52:1-34 The Fall of Jerusalem
52:1-11 Zedekiah Rebelled and Jerusalem Captured
52:12-23 The Temple Was Destroyed
52:24-30 Leaders Killed and Judah Sent Into Captivity
52:31-34 King Jehoiachin Released from Captivity