Jeremiah

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Chapters in Jeremiah

1. Jeremiah 1: The Call of Jeremiah

   God tells young Jeremiah that He appointed him as His prophet before he was born and meets his protest of youth with a promise of His presence. Visions of an almond branch and a tipped cooking pot show that God will fulfill His word and bring invasion from the north, and He makes Jeremiah strong against all foes.

2. Jeremiah 2: Israel Forsakes the Spring of Life

   God recalls Israel's early devotion and then charges the nation with abandoning Him for lifeless idols, a betrayal no pagan nation would commit. Through images of leaking water tanks, a vine gone wild, and an unclean stain, He exposes faithless leaders, trust in Egypt and Assyria, and false claims of innocence.

3. Jeremiah 3: A Call for Faithless Israel to Return

   God compares His people to an unfaithful wife and contrasts the exiled northern kingdom with Judah, whose turning back was only pretended. He calls His people to admit their guilt and return, promising faithful leaders, a reunited people back in their land, and healing, and the people end with confession.

4. Jeremiah 4: Invasion Warned and Hearts Called to Change

   God urges Judah to turn back to Him with changed hearts and warns of an invader coming from the north like a lion. Jeremiah cries out in anguish over the coming war, sees the land pictured as creation undone, and hears ruined Zion cry out in agony.

5. Jeremiah 5: Not One Just Person in Jerusalem

   God offers to pardon Jerusalem if even one honest, just person can be found there, but rich and poor alike have rejected Him. He announces a distant nation as judgment, rebukes a people who do not fear the Creator, and condemns cheating, false prophets, and a people who approve of them.

6. Jeremiah 6: Siege Warning and the Old Paths

   God warns that an army from the north will besiege Jerusalem because the city is full of oppression and its leaders give false assurances of safety. The people refuse His call to walk in the old good way and heed His watchmen, so their offerings are refused and they are judged as worthless metal.

7. Jeremiah 7: Jeremiah’s Temple Sermon

   Standing at the temple entrance, Jeremiah warns Judah that God’s house will not protect a people who steal, murder, and serve idols, and that it will be ruined as Shiloh was. God forbids him to pray for them, condemns the Queen of Heaven cult, demands obedience over ritual, and judges child sacrifice at Topheth.

8. Jeremiah 8: No Healing for an Unrepentant People

   God announces that the bones of Judah’s leaders will be dug up and exposed before the sun and stars they worshiped. The people refuse to turn back, scribes twist God’s law, and priests and prophets promise false peace, so the prophet mourns that no healing has come for his broken nation.

9. Jeremiah 9: Weeping Over Judah and True Boasting

   Jeremiah longs to weep without end for his slain people and grieves over a nation of lies and betrayal. God says the land lies ruined because they abandoned His law, calls for mourning women, and teaches that the only proper boast is in knowing Him. Outward circumcision will not shield a people uncircumcised in heart.

10. Jeremiah 10: Idols and the Living God

    God warns Israel not to copy the nations, whose carved and gilded idols are as helpless as scarecrows, while He alone is the real, everlasting King who created everything. Exile is announced for the besieged land, and the prophet confesses that people cannot direct their own lives and asks for just correction.

11. Jeremiah 11: The Broken Covenant

    God reminds Judah of the covenant made at the exodus and declares that the people have broken it by serving Baal and other gods, so disaster is coming and Jeremiah must not pray for them. Jeremiah learns that people from his own town of Anathoth are plotting to kill him, and God promises to punish them.

12. Jeremiah 12: Why Do the Wicked Prosper

    Jeremiah asks God why wicked people thrive, and God answers that harder trials are coming and that even his own family has betrayed him. God hands His beloved people over to enemies, then promises to uproot hostile neighbors, show them compassion, and settle among His people those who learn to swear by His name.

13. Jeremiah 13: The Ruined Linen Loincloth

    Jeremiah hides a linen undergarment at Perath and finds it spoiled, a sign that God will humble proud Judah, the people He had bound to Himself. Warnings follow about wineskins, coming darkness and exile, a people so used to evil they cannot change, and their scattering.

14. Jeremiah 14: Drought and False Prophets of Peace

    A severe drought strikes Judah, and a prayer confesses the nation’s sins and pleads with God for help. The LORD refuses, tells Jeremiah not to intercede, condemns prophets who promise peace, and a second prayer appeals to Him as the only giver of rain.

15. Jeremiah 15: Jeremiah's Lament and God's Reply

    God declares that even Moses and Samuel could not turn aside His judgment on Judah, citing the sins of King Manasseh. Jeremiah then laments being cursed by everyone, and God calls him to return, promising to make him a bronze wall and to rescue him.

16. Jeremiah 16: Jeremiah's Life as a Sign of Judgment

    God forbids Jeremiah to marry, to join funerals, or to attend feasts, making his life a sign that death and silence will soon fill Judah. The LORD explains that exile comes for idolatry, yet promises a return greater than the exodus, and Jeremiah foresees the nations abandoning their idols.

17. Jeremiah 17: Trust in the LORD and the Deceitful Heart

    Judah's sin is deeply engraved in its heart and worship. The LORD contrasts the barren life of one who relies on people with the fruitful life of one who relies on Him and declares the human heart incurably deceitful yet fully known to Him. Jeremiah pleads for rescue, and the LORD calls Jerusalem to honor the Sabbath.

18. Jeremiah 18: The Potter and the Clay

    At a potter's house Jeremiah watches a spoiled pot reshaped, and the LORD teaches that Israel is in His hands like clay and that His warnings and promises to nations depend on how they respond. Judah refuses to repent, enemies plot against Jeremiah, and he prays for God to judge them.

19. Jeremiah 19: The Broken Clay Jar

    The LORD sends Jeremiah with a clay jar, elders, and priests to Ben-hinnom Valley to announce disaster on Jerusalem for idol worship and child sacrifice. Jeremiah smashes the jar as a sign that the city will be ruined beyond repair, then repeats the warning in the temple court.

20. Jeremiah 20: Jeremiah in the Stocks and His Lament

    The priest Pashhur has Jeremiah beaten and held in the stocks, and Jeremiah gives him a new name and foretells his exile to Babylon. Jeremiah then pours out a bitter complaint about mockery, the word burning within him, his trust in the LORD, and grief over his birth.

21. Jeremiah 21: Zedekiah Asks for a Miracle

    King Zedekiah sends messengers asking Jeremiah to seek the LORD's help against Babylon. The LORD answers that He Himself will fight against Jerusalem, offers the people life through surrender, and calls the royal house of David to do justice or face His fiery anger.

22. Jeremiah 22: Judgment on Judah's Last Kings

    Jeremiah warns the royal house to practice justice or see the palace ruined. He announces that Shallum will die in exile, condemns Jehoiakim for building his palace with unpaid labor unlike his just father Josiah, and declares that Coniah will be cast off to Babylon with no heir ruling after him.

23. Jeremiah 23: The Righteous Branch and False Prophets

    God condemns the shepherds who scattered His flock and promises to gather the remnant and raise up a righteous King from David's line. The rest of the chapter exposes lying prophets who promise peace, tell their own dreams as God's message, and misuse the phrase about the LORD's burden.

24. Jeremiah 24: The Good and Bad Figs

    After King Jeconiah and Judah’s leaders are deported to Babylon, Jeremiah sees a vision of a fine basket of figs and a rotten one. The good figs stand for the exiles, whom God promises to bring back and to give hearts that know Him, while Zedekiah and those left behind face ruin.

25. Jeremiah 25: Seventy Years and the Cup of Wrath

    Jeremiah reminds Judah that it ignored twenty-three years of warnings, so the LORD will send Nebuchadnezzar, His servant, and Babylon will rule the nations for seventy years before it is punished in turn. Jeremiah then passes the cup of God’s wrath to Jerusalem and the nations, and the rulers are called to lament.

26. Jeremiah 26: Jeremiah on Trial for His Life

    Jeremiah warns in the temple that it will share the fate of Shiloh unless the people repent, and the priests and the prophets demand his death. The officials and the people refuse, and elders recall how Hezekiah heeded Micah. Jehoiakim had the prophet Uriah killed for the same message, but Ahikam protects Jeremiah.

27. Jeremiah 27: Jeremiah Wears a Yoke

    Jeremiah wears a yoke as a sign that Judah and its neighbors must submit to Nebuchadnezzar, to whom God, the Creator of the earth, has handed these lands for a set time. He warns Zedekiah and the priests against prophets promising the temple treasures will soon return; the rest will go too, until God restores them.

28. Jeremiah 28: Hananiah the False Prophet

    The prophet Hananiah predicts that Babylon’s power will end within two years and breaks the yoke from Jeremiah’s neck. God answers that an iron yoke will replace the wooden one, and Hananiah dies within the year, as Jeremiah foretold.

29. Jeremiah 29: Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles

    Jeremiah writes to the exiles in Babylon, telling them to settle down, raise families and pray for the city’s welfare, since God will bring them home only after seventy years. He promises they will find God when they seek Him wholeheartedly and condemns lying prophets in Babylon, among them Shemaiah.

30. Jeremiah 30: Promise of Restoration for Jacob

    God tells Jeremiah to record His promise that Israel and Judah will return from captivity to their land. A day of terrible distress will come, yet Jacob will be rescued, serve a king from David’s line, and be healed of a wound no one else could cure, while God’s anger completes its purpose against the wicked.

31. Jeremiah 31: Everlasting Love and the New Covenant

    God promises His scattered people a joyful return rooted in His endless love, comforts Rachel mourning her children, and answers Ephraim’s repentance with compassion. He pledges a covenant that writes His law within them and forgives sin, ties Israel’s future to creation’s order, and promises a rebuilt, holy Jerusalem.

32. Jeremiah 32: Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege

    While Babylon besieges Jerusalem and Zedekiah holds him under guard, Jeremiah buys his cousin Hanamel's field at Anathoth and has Baruch store the deeds as a sign that land will be sold there again. Jeremiah prays, and God answers with judgment on the city and a lasting covenant of return.

33. Jeremiah 33: The Righteous Branch and Restoration

    Still held in the guard's courtyard, Jeremiah hears God promise to heal Jerusalem, forgive its sins, and bring back joy, worship, and flocks to the ruined land. God pledges a righteous Branch from David's line and ties His covenants with David's line and the Levitical priests to the fixed pattern of day and night.

34. Jeremiah 34: Freed Slaves Taken Back

    During the Babylonian siege, the LORD tells King Zedekiah that Jerusalem will be burned and he will be taken to Babylon, though he will die peacefully. The people free their Hebrew slaves by covenant, then reclaim them, so God sentences them to war, disease and famine and vows to bring Babylon’s army back.

35. Jeremiah 35: The Faithful Rechabites

    Jeremiah brings the Rechabite family into the temple and offers them wine, which they refuse out of loyalty to their ancestor Jonadab’s commands. The LORD contrasts their faithfulness with Judah’s refusal to obey Him, announces disaster on Judah, and promises the Rechabites a lasting line.

36. Jeremiah 36: King Jehoiakim Burns the Scroll

    Baruch writes down the LORD’s messages as Jeremiah dictates and reads the scroll publicly at the temple, alarming the royal officials. King Jehoiakim cuts it apart and burns it, but the LORD hides Jeremiah and Baruch, pronounces judgment on the king, and has the scroll written again with more added.

37. Jeremiah 37: Jeremiah Arrested and Imprisoned

    King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to pray for Judah while Babylon’s army briefly withdraws as Egypt approaches, but the LORD warns that the Babylonians will return and burn Jerusalem. Accused of defecting, Jeremiah is beaten and jailed, then questioned in secret by the king and moved to the guard’s courtyard.

38. Jeremiah 38: Jeremiah Rescued from the Cistern

    Officials angered by Jeremiah’s call to surrender to Babylon get Zedekiah’s consent and lower him into a muddy cistern. Ebed-melech gains the king’s approval and draws the prophet out, and in a secret meeting Jeremiah urges the fearful king to surrender, then stays under guard until the city falls.

39. Jeremiah 39: The Fall of Jerusalem

    Babylon breaks into Jerusalem, and Zedekiah flees but is captured, sees his sons killed, and is blinded and taken away in chains while the city is burned. Nebuzaradan exiles the people, Jeremiah is freed and placed with Gedaliah, and the LORD promises to spare Ebed-melech because he trusted Him.

40. Jeremiah 40: Jeremiah Freed and Gedaliah Governs

    Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian captain, frees Jeremiah and says the LORD brought ruin on Judah for its sin. Jeremiah stays with Gedaliah at Mizpah, who urges the survivors to serve Babylon and gather the harvest. Gedaliah then dismisses Johanan’s warning that Ishmael son of Nethaniah plans to kill him.

41. Jeremiah 41: Ishmael Murders Gedaliah

    Nethaniah’s son Ishmael and his men kill Gedaliah at Mizpah along with the Judeans and Babylonian soldiers there, then murder all but ten of eighty pilgrims bringing offerings. Johanan rescues the captives Ishmael is taking toward Ammon, and the survivors, afraid of Babylon, head toward Egypt.

42. Jeremiah 42: Warning Against Going to Egypt

    The survivors ask Jeremiah to pray for guidance and vow to obey whatever the LORD says. Ten days later the LORD promises to protect and plant them if they stay in Judah but warns that war and famine will find them in Egypt, and Jeremiah tells them they have fooled themselves.

43. Jeremiah 43: The Remnant Flees to Egypt

    Azariah, Johanan and other proud men accuse Jeremiah of lying and blame Baruch for his message. Defying the LORD, they lead the survivors, Jeremiah and Baruch included, to Tahpanhes in Egypt. There Jeremiah buries stones at Pharaoh’s palace as a sign that Nebuchadnezzar will conquer Egypt and burn its temples.

44. Jeremiah 44: Idolatry Among the Jews in Egypt

    The LORD reminds the Jews in Egypt that Judah fell for idolatry and warns that their idol worship there will ruin them. The people defiantly vow to keep honoring the Queen of Heaven, claiming they prospered while doing so. Jeremiah answers that this worship caused the disaster and names Pharaoh Hophra’s fall as a sign.

45. Jeremiah 45: A Word to Baruch

    The LORD answers Baruch, who wrote down Jeremiah’s messages and has been lamenting his sorrow and weariness. Since the LORD is tearing down the nation He planted, Baruch must not pursue greatness for himself. Though disaster will come on everyone, God promises to spare Baruch’s life wherever he goes.

46. Jeremiah 46: The LORD’s Judgment on Egypt

    Jeremiah describes Egypt’s mighty army, beaten by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish, fleeing in panic because the day of battle is the LORD’s. A second oracle foretells Babylon striking Egypt and its gods, promises Egypt will be lived in again, and assures Israel of rescue and fair discipline.

47. Jeremiah 47: Judgment on the Philistines

    The LORD pictures an invasion from the north sweeping over the Philistines like a flood, leaving fathers too weak to go back for their children. Gaza and Ashkelon mourn, and a plea for the LORD’s sword to rest is answered that it cannot stop, since He has given it its orders against them.

48. Jeremiah 48: The Downfall of Proud Moab

    Jeremiah foretells the ruin of Moab’s towns because it relied on its own deeds and riches and grew complacent and arrogant against the LORD. God Himself grieves over Moab even as He judges its pride and mocking of Israel, yet the oracle ends with a promise to restore Moab in days to come.

49. Jeremiah 49: Judgment on Ammon, Edom and Elam

    The LORD announces judgment on Ammon for trusting its wealth, and on Edom, whose pride in its mountain heights cannot save it. Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, and Elam fall under His hand as well, yet He promises to restore Ammon and Elam afterward.

50. Jeremiah 50: Babylon Judged and Israel Restored

    The LORD declares that Babylon will be captured and its idols disgraced, repaid for its pride and cruelty to His people. Israel and Judah will return in tears to seek Him; He will pardon the remnant He spares, their strong Redeemer will defend them, and a northern army will leave Babylon’s king weak with dread.

51. Jeremiah 51: Judgment on Babylon and the Sunken Scroll

    The LORD announces Babylon’s sudden ruin, picturing the empire as a golden cup He once used to judge the nations and urging His people to escape. He contrasts Himself as Creator with lifeless idols and vows to avenge Zion, and Jeremiah sends Seraiah to read a scroll in Babylon and sink it in the Euphrates.

52. Jeremiah 52: The Fall of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem falls to Babylon after a long siege and famine, and Zedekiah is caught near Jericho, sentenced at Riblah, blinded, and taken captive. Nebuzaradan burns the temple and city, carries off its bronze, and takes leaders to Riblah to die, but later a new Babylonian king frees and honors King Jehoiachin.