Jeremiah
The weeping prophet warns Judah before the fall of Jerusalem and promises a new covenant.
Choose a chapter
- Written by
- Jeremiah, with his scribe Baruch
- Date
- c. 627–580 BC
Themes
- Warning before judgment
- A broken covenant
- The promise of a new covenant
Outline
- Jeremiah’s callChapter 1
- Warnings to JudahChapters 2–29
- The book of comfortChapters 30–33
- Before and after the fall of JerusalemChapters 34–45
- Oracles against the nationsChapters 46–51
- The fall of JerusalemChapter 52
Key verses
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.