Jeremiah Preview Jeremiah means “Jehovah throws” or “Jehovah establishes, appoints, or sends.” Jeremiah was the author of this book (and likely the author of Lamentations).

Read Jeremiah 2 Israel Forsakes God 2 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what

Read Jeremiah 3 3 “If a man divorces his wife    and she leaves him and marries another man,should he return to her again?    Would not the land be

Read Jeremiah 4 4 “If you, Israel, will return,    then return to me,”declares the Lord.“If you put your detestable idols out of my sight    and no longer go

Read Jeremiah 5 Not One Is Upright 5 “Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem,    look around and consider,    search through her squares.If you can find but

Read Jeremiah 6 Jerusalem Under Siege 6 “Flee for safety, people of Benjamin!    Flee from Jerusalem!Sound the trumpet in Tekoa!    Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem!For disaster looms

Read Jeremiah 7 False Religion Worthless 7 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house

Read Jeremiah 8 8 “‘At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets,

Read Jeremiah 9 9 1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water    and my eyes a fountain of tears!I would weep day and night    for the slain

Read Jeremiah 10 God and Idols 10 Hear what the Lord says to you, people of Israel. 2 This is what the Lord says: “Do not learn

Read Jeremiah 11 The Covenant Is Broken 11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant

Read Jeremiah 12 Jeremiah’s Complaint 12 You are always righteous, Lord,    when I bring a case before you.Yet I would speak with you about your justice:    Why does

Read Jeremiah 13 A Linen Belt 13 This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your

Read Jeremiah 14 Drought, Famine, Sword 14 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 2 “Judah mourns,    her cities languish;they wail

Read Jeremiah 15 15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out

Read Jeremiah 16 Day of Disaster 16 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 2 “You must not marry and have sons or daughters in

Read Jeremiah 17 17 “Judah’s sin is engraved with an iron tool,    inscribed with a flint point,on the tablets of their hearts    and on the horns of their

Read Jeremiah 18 At the Potter’s House 18 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, and

Read Jeremiah 19 19 This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of

Read Jeremiah 20 Jeremiah and Pashhur 20 When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah

Read Jeremiah 21 God Rejects Zedekiah’s Request 21 The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah

Editor’s Note Beginning on Palm Sunday we are going to pause our journey through Jeremiah and read through selected New Testament readings that correspond what

Editor’s Note Beginning on Palm Sunday we are going to pause our journey through Jeremiah and read through selected New Testament readings that correspond what

Read Jeremiah 24 Two Baskets of Figs 24 After Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of

Read Jeremiah 25 Seventy Years of Captivity 25 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son

Read Jeremiah 26 Jeremiah Threatened With Death 26 Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the Lord:

Read Jeremiah 27 Judah to Serve Nebuchadnezzar 27 Early in the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from

Read Jeremiah 28 The False Prophet Hananiah 28 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king

Read Jeremiah 29 A Letter to the Exiles 29 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving

Read Jeremiah 30 Restoration of Israel 30 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “This is what the Lord, the God of

Read Jeremiah 31 31 “At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my

Read Jeremiah 32 Jeremiah Buys a Field 32 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king

Read Jeremiah 33 Promise of Restoration 33 While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him

Read Jeremiah 34 Warning to Zedekiah 34 While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he

Read Jeremiah 35 The Rekabites 35 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord during the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king

Read Jeremiah 36 Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah’s Scroll 36 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from

Read Jeremiah 37 Jeremiah in Prison 37 Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of

Read Jeremiah 38 Jeremiah Thrown Into a Cistern 38 Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehukal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah

Read Jeremiah 39 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his

Read Jeremiah 40 Jeremiah Freed 40 The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard had released him at Ramah.

Read Jeremiah 41 41 In the seventh month Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood and had been one of

Read Jeremiah 42 42 Then all the army officers, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least

Read Jeremiah 43 43 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God—everything the Lord had sent him to tell

Read Jeremiah 44 Disaster Because of Idolatry 44 This word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in Lower Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes and Memphis—and in

Read Jeremiah 45 A Message to Baruch 45 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth

Read Jeremiah 46 A Message About Egypt 46 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations: 2 Concerning Egypt:

Read Jeremiah 47 A Message About the Philistines 47 This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before

Read Jeremiah 48 A Message About Moab 48 Concerning Moab: This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it

Read Jeremiah 49 A Message About Ammon 49 Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the Lord says: “Has Israel no sons?    Has Israel no heir?Why then has

Read Jeremiah 50 A Message About Babylon 50 This is the word the Lord spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the

Read Jeremiah 51 51 This is what the Lord says: “See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer    against Babylon and the people of Leb

Read Jeremiah 52 The Fall of Jerusalem 52 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s