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Jeremiah 1 tells how God called Jeremiah to be a prophet. Jeremiah was the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth. God said he knew Jeremiah before he was formed in the womb. Jeremiah felt too young, but God touched his mouth and put his words there. God showed him an almond branch and a boiling pot. God promised to be with him and rescue him.
Jeremiah 2 is God's message to Jerusalem. God remembered how his people once loved him and followed him in the wilderness. But they turned away to worthless gods. God said they had forsaken him, the spring of living waters, and dug broken cisterns that can't hold water. God called them to see what they had done.
Jeremiah 3 is a call to come back to God. Israel and Judah had been unfaithful to God. God told Jeremiah to call out toward the north. God said he is merciful and will not keep his anger forever. He promised shepherds after his own heart. He said, Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding.
Jeremiah 4 begins with God's promise to bless his people if they return. God told them to break up their hard ground and wash their hearts. Jeremiah warned that trouble was coming from the north like a lion and a storm. Jeremiah felt deep pain for his people. Yet God said, I will not make a full end.
Jeremiah 5 begins with God asking for a search of Jerusalem's streets. If one person who does justly and seeks truth could be found, God would pardon the city. But the people refused to return. God reminded them that he sets the sand as a boundary for the sea and gives rain in its season. Still God said he would not make a full end of them.
In Jeremiah 6 God warns Jerusalem that trouble is coming from the north. He calls the people to stand at the crossroads and ask for the old paths, where the good way is. God set watchmen to blow the trumpet, but the people would not listen. Leaders said Peace, peace, when there was no peace.
In Jeremiah 7 God sends Jeremiah to stand in the gate of the temple. The people trusted that the temple would keep them safe, even while they did wrong. God said to change their ways and do justice. God had always wanted them to obey his voice, so he would be their God and they would be his people.
In Jeremiah 8 God asks why his people fall and do not get up again. Even the stork and the swallow know their seasons, but the people did not know God's law. Jeremiah grieved over the hurt of his people. He asked whether there was no balm in Gilead and no physician there.
In Jeremiah 9 the prophet weeps for his people. Friends were deceiving one another and would not speak the truth. God said the wise should not boast in wisdom, the mighty in might, or the rich in riches. Instead people should boast that they understand and know God, who shows loving kindness, justice, and righteousness.
In Jeremiah 10 God tells his people not to learn the ways of the nations. Their idols are cut from a tree, covered with silver and gold, and fastened with nails. They cannot speak or walk. But Yahweh is the true God, the living God, and an everlasting King. He made the earth by his power.
In Jeremiah 11 God reminds Judah of the covenant he made when he brought their fathers out of Egypt. He had said, Obey my voice, and you will be my people. But they did not obey. Then God showed Jeremiah that men from his own town were making plans against him. Jeremiah trusted God, who tests the heart and the mind.
In Jeremiah 12 the prophet asks God a hard question. Why do wicked people seem to do well? God answers with a challenge. If running with people on foot has tired you, how will you run with horses? God grieves over his land. He also promises to have compassion and bring people back, even the nations, if they learn his ways.
In Jeremiah 13 God tells Jeremiah to buy a linen belt and wear it. Then Jeremiah hides it by the Euphrates River. After many days he digs it up, and the belt is ruined. God explains that he wanted his people to cling to him like a belt clings to a person's waist, but they would not listen. God calls them not to be proud.
In Jeremiah 14 a drought dries up the land. The ground cracks, and even the wild animals have no grass. The people pray, admitting their sin and asking God to help for his name's sake. False prophets promised peace, but God had not sent them. The chapter ends with a prayer that only God can send rain.
In Jeremiah 15 God tells Jeremiah that judgment on Jerusalem will not be turned back. Jeremiah feels lonely and hurt, because many people are against him. He tells God that when he found God's words, he ate them, and they were a joy to his heart. God promises to make Jeremiah strong like a bronze wall and to save him.
In Jeremiah 16 God tells Jeremiah not to marry and not to join in feasts or funerals. His life would be a sign of hard days coming. But God also promises a future rescue even greater than the exodus from Egypt. God would bring his people back from the land of the north. Jeremiah called God his strength and his refuge.
In Jeremiah 17 God compares two people. One trusts in man and is like a dry bush in the desert. The other trusts in Yahweh and is like a tree planted by the waters, green even in drought. God says the heart is deceitful, but he searches the heart. Jeremiah prays, Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. God also calls the people to keep the Sabbath holy.
In Jeremiah 18 God sends Jeremiah to the potter's house. When a clay pot is spoiled, the potter makes it again into another pot. God says his people are like clay in his hand. If a nation turns from evil, God will relent. But the people said they would follow their own plans, and some even made plans against Jeremiah.
In Jeremiah 19 God tells Jeremiah to buy a clay jar and take some of the elders with him. In front of them Jeremiah breaks the jar. A broken jar cannot be made whole again. It was a sign that Jerusalem would be broken because the people had forsaken God and refused to listen.
In Jeremiah 20 the priest Pashhur strikes Jeremiah and puts him in the stocks. The next day Jeremiah is released and gives Pashhur God's message. Jeremiah tells God how hard it is to be laughed at. He tries to stop speaking, but God's word is like a burning fire in his heart. He sings praise because Yahweh is with him.
In Jeremiah 21 King Zedekiah sends men to ask Jeremiah to pray, because the king of Babylon is making war against Jerusalem. The king hopes God will do a wonder and make the army leave. God's answer is that the city will fall. God sets before the people the way of life and the way of death. He tells the royal house of David to do justice every morning and to rescue people who are robbed.
In Jeremiah 22 God sends Jeremiah to the king's palace. God tells the king to do justice and righteousness and to protect the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. God warns King Jehoiakim, who built a fancy palace without paying his workers. His father Josiah judged the cause of the poor and needy, and it was well with him. God says that caring for the poor is what it means to know him.
In Jeremiah 23 God warns the shepherds, the leaders who scattered his sheep. God promises to gather his flock himself and give them good shepherds. He promises to raise up a righteous Branch from David who will reign wisely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness. God also warns against false prophets and says his word is like fire and like a hammer that breaks rock.
In Jeremiah 24 God shows Jeremiah two baskets of figs in front of the temple. One basket has very good figs, and the other has very bad figs. God says the people already taken to Babylon are like the good figs. He will watch over them for good, bring them back, and give them a heart to know him. Those who stayed and refused to listen were like the bad figs.
In Jeremiah 25 Jeremiah reminds the people that for twenty-three years he has spoken God's word to them, but they have not listened. God had sent many prophets to say, Return now everyone from his evil way. Because they did not listen, Judah and the nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. After seventy years, God will judge Babylon too. God's judgment is pictured as a cup the nations must drink.
In Jeremiah 26 God sends Jeremiah to the temple court to speak every word God gives him, without leaving out one word. Jeremiah warns that the temple could become like Shiloh if the people do not listen. The priests and prophets seize him and say he should die. Jeremiah calmly tells them to amend their ways. Some elders remember that King Hezekiah listened to the prophet Micah. The princes decide Jeremiah should not die, and Ahikam protects him.
In Jeremiah 27 God tells Jeremiah to make a wooden yoke with bonds and bars and put it on his neck. A yoke is the wooden bar oxen wear when they work. It was a picture that the nations should serve the king of Babylon for a time. God made the earth, and he gives it to whom he chooses. Jeremiah warns the kings not to listen to prophets who tell lies.
In Jeremiah 28 a prophet named Hananiah says God will break the yoke of Babylon within two years. Jeremiah says Amen, he wishes it were true, but a prophet of peace is proven when his word comes true. Hananiah takes the wooden yoke off Jeremiah's neck and breaks it. Then God tells Jeremiah that the wooden bars will be replaced by bars of iron. Hananiah had made the people trust in a lie.
In Jeremiah 29 Jeremiah sends a letter to the people taken to Babylon. God tells them to build houses, plant gardens, and have families there. They should seek the peace of the city and pray for it. After seventy years, God will bring them home. God says he has thoughts of peace for them, to give them hope and a future. When they seek him with all their heart, they will find him.
In Jeremiah 30 God tells Jeremiah to write all his words in a book. Days are coming when God will bring his people back to their land. There will be a time of trouble, but Jacob will be saved out of it. God says, Don't be afraid, O Jacob my servant. God promises to heal his people's wounds, rebuild the city, and fill it with songs of thanks. You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
In Jeremiah 31 God says, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. He promises to bring his scattered people home with singing and dancing, and to turn their mourning into joy. Then God promises a new covenant. He will put his law in their inward parts and write it in their heart. All of them will know him, and he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. God's promise is as sure as the sun, moon, and stars.
In Jeremiah 32 the army of Babylon surrounds Jerusalem, and Jeremiah is shut in the court of the guard. God tells Jeremiah that his cousin Hanamel will come and ask him to buy a field in Anathoth. Jeremiah buys it and seals the deed in a clay jar. It is a sign that houses and fields will be bought in the land again. Jeremiah prays that nothing is too hard for God, and God answers that he will bring his people back.
In Jeremiah 33 God speaks to Jeremiah again while he is still shut in the court of the guard. God says, Call to me, and I will answer you. He promises to bring health and healing to Jerusalem and to forgive his people. The sounds of joy, weddings, and thanksgiving will be heard again. God will raise up a Branch of righteousness for David. God's covenant is as sure as day and night.
In Jeremiah 34 King Zedekiah and the people make a covenant to set free their Hebrew servants, as God's law commanded. They do what is right and let them go. But then they change their minds and force the servants back. God is displeased, because they broke their promise and dishonored his name.
In Jeremiah 35 God tells Jeremiah to bring the Rechabite family into a room of the temple and offer them wine. They refuse, because their ancestor Jonadab told them never to drink wine and to live in tents. They had obeyed him for many years. God uses their faithfulness as a lesson. The Rechabites obeyed their father, but God's people had not obeyed God, even though he spoke to them again and again.
In Jeremiah 36 God tells Jeremiah to write all his words on a scroll. Baruch writes as Jeremiah speaks, and then reads the scroll in the temple. Some officials hear it and are afraid. They tell Baruch and Jeremiah to hide. When the scroll is read to King Jehoiakim, he cuts it piece by piece and throws it into the fire. But God tells Jeremiah to write it all again, and many more words are added.
In Jeremiah 37 King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to pray for the people, but he does not listen to God's words. When Babylon's army leaves for a while, Jeremiah tries to go to the land of Benjamin. A guard says he is running to the enemy, and the princes put him in prison. Later the king secretly asks Jeremiah if there is a word from God. Jeremiah tells the truth. The king moves him to the court of the guard and gives him bread each day.
In Jeremiah 38 some princes are angry with Jeremiah's message, and they lower him into a muddy pit with no water. Jeremiah sinks in the mud. Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian servant of the king, bravely asks the king to help. The king sends him with thirty men, and they pull Jeremiah out with ropes and soft rags. Later Zedekiah secretly asks Jeremiah again, and Jeremiah urges him to obey God.
In Jeremiah 39 Babylon's army breaks into Jerusalem, just as God had warned. The city is taken and many people are carried away. But God takes care of Jeremiah. The king of Babylon orders that Jeremiah be treated kindly, and he is set free. God also sends a promise to Ebedmelech, the man who rescued Jeremiah. God will save him because he trusted in God.
In Jeremiah 40 the captain of Babylon's guard finds Jeremiah in chains among the people being taken away. He sets Jeremiah free and lets him choose where to live. Jeremiah chooses to stay in Judah with Gedaliah, the new governor, among the people left in the land. People who had scattered come back, and they gather a big harvest. But Gedaliah is warned of a plot against him and does not believe it.
In Jeremiah 41 a man named Ishmael turns against Gedaliah, the governor, and takes the people of Mizpah away as captives. When Johanan and his captains hear about it, they go after Ishmael. The captives see Johanan and are glad, and they come back to him. Ishmael escapes. Afraid of Babylon, Johanan and the people stop near Bethlehem, planning to go to Egypt.
In Jeremiah 42 the people ask Jeremiah to pray and find out what God wants them to do. They promise to obey, whether the answer is good or bad. After ten days God answers. Stay in this land, and I will build you up and plant you. Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, for I am with you. But if you go to Egypt, the trouble you fear will find you there. Jeremiah warns them that their hearts are not really ready to obey.
In Jeremiah 43 the leaders refuse to believe God's message. They say Jeremiah is lying, and they take all the people to Egypt, even Jeremiah and Baruch. In Egypt God tells Jeremiah to hide large stones in the brickwork at Pharaoh's house. It is a sign that the king of Babylon will come there too. Running away from God's word does not bring safety.
In Jeremiah 44 the people of Judah living in Egypt start worshiping other gods again. Jeremiah reminds them that God sent prophet after prophet to warn them, but they did not listen. The people say they will keep burning incense to the queen of the sky. Jeremiah tells them that God's word, not theirs, will stand.
Jeremiah 45 is a short message from God to Baruch, Jeremiah's helper. Baruch was tired and sad. He said that God had added sorrow to his pain. God reminds Baruch that hard times are coming for the whole land, so Baruch should not seek great things for himself. But God makes him a promise. Wherever Baruch goes, God will keep him alive.
Jeremiah 46 begins the messages to the nations. God speaks about Egypt. Egypt's army is proud and rises up like the Nile River, but it is defeated by Babylon at Carchemish. Later Babylon will come into Egypt itself. The chapter ends with a tender promise to Israel. Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant. God will save his people and bring them home.
Jeremiah 47 is God's message about the Philistines, who lived by the sea in cities like Gaza and Ashkelon. Trouble is coming on them like a flood from the north. The chapter asks the sword of the Lord how long it will be before it rests. It cannot rest, because God has given it a command. God rules over every nation, even Israel's old enemies.
Jeremiah 48 is a long message about Moab, a nation east of the Dead Sea. Moab was proud and trusted in its riches and in its god Chemosh. God says Moab will be brought low because it lifted itself up against him. Yet God's heart grieves over Moab. The chapter ends with hope. In the latter days God will restore Moab's fortunes.
Jeremiah 49 has short messages to Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, and Elam. Each nation trusted in something other than God, like riches, wisdom, or high rocky homes. God says each will be brought low. But in the middle of these hard words is a tender promise. God will take care of the fatherless children and widows who trust in him. The chapter also promises hope for Ammon and Elam in the latter days.
Jeremiah 50 is God's message about Babylon, the great empire that conquered Judah. God says Babylon will fall, because it was proud and cruel. At the same time, God promises his people a new beginning. They have been like lost sheep, led astray by their shepherds. But they will come home, seek God, and join themselves to him in an everlasting covenant. God will forgive them, and he is their strong Redeemer.
Jeremiah 51 continues God's message about Babylon. Babylon seemed powerful and rich, but its idols were empty and had no breath. Yahweh is different. He made the earth by his power and stretched out the heavens. God tells his people to leave Babylon and remember Jerusalem. At the end, Jeremiah writes the message in a book and sends it with Seraiah, who reads it in Babylon and throws it, tied to a stone, into the river Euphrates. Babylon will sink like that stone.
Jeremiah 52 tells again how Jerusalem fell to Babylon. Zedekiah did evil, Babylon's army came, and the city and the temple were burned. Many people were carried away, and some of the poorest were left to care for the vineyards and fields. But the book ends with a small sign of hope. Years later, in Babylon, King Jehoiachin is set free from prison. The new king speaks kindly to him and gives him food every day for the rest of his life. God had not forgotten David's family.