The People Have No Future in Their Land
1The word of the Lord came to me:
2You are not to marry and not to have sons and daughters in this place. 3For thus said the Lord concerning any sons and daughters that may be born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bear them, and concerning the fathers who beget them in this land: 4They shall die gruesome deaths. They shall not be…
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Jeremiah’s Lament to God
Jeremiah 15:10, 15–21
Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me—
A man of conflict and strife with all the land!
I have not lent,
And I have not borrowed;
Yet everyone curses me. [ . . . ]
O Lord, you know—
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Retribution and Divine Justice
Jeremiah 17:5–8, 14–18
Thus said the Lord:
Cursed is he who trusts in man,
Who makes mere flesh his strength,
And turns his thoughts from the Lord.
He shall be like a bush in the desert,
Which does not sense the coming…
Desecration of the Sabbath Leads to Destruction
Jeremiah 17:19–27
Thus said the Lord to me: Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go forth, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, and say to them: Hear the word of the…
The Parable of the Potter
Jeremiah 18:1–12
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the house of a potter, and there I will impart My words to you.” So I went down to the house of a potter, and found him working at the…
Jeremiah’s Arrest and His Lament over His Prophetic Role
Jeremiah 20:1–13
Pashhur son of Immer, the priest who was chief officer of the House of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper…
Prophecies to the King and to the People
Jeremiah 21–23 (selections)
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchiah and the priest Zephaniah, son of Maaseiah, to say, “Please inquire of the Lord on…