Jeremiah
11 sessions, each with its notes, questions, and the full World English Bible text.
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Session 1 · Jeremiah 1–5
A prophet consecrated before his birth.
- The Lord consecrates Jeremiah in the womb as a prophet to the nations, shows him an almond branch and a boiling pot, and promises to be with him.
- Israel is remembered as a bride who followed the Lord in the wilderness, then accused of forsaking the fountain of living waters for broken cisterns.
- Faithless Israel and treacherous Judah are called to return, the ark is no longer the boast, and shepherds after God's heart are promised.
- Disaster is announced from the north, hearts are told to be circumcised, and the prophet cries out as if his very being were in labor.
- The Lord searches Jerusalem for one who does justice and finds refusal, and a people with faces harder than rock will not turn.
Session 2 · Jeremiah 6–10
The temple is not a charm against judgment.
- Jerusalem is told to flee the besieging north, the ancient paths are rejected, and the prophet is appointed an assayer of a people called rejected silver.
- Jeremiah preaches at the temple gate that deceptive words, the temple of the Lord, cannot shelter theft, murder, and idolatry, for Shiloh has already fallen.
- The wounded people ask for balm in Gilead and find none, scribes handle the law falsely, and the harvest is past with no one saved.
- The prophet weeps and wishes his eyes were a fountain, and the Lord says let the one who boasts boast in knowing him, the God who does kindness and justice.
- The living God is contrasted with the idols of the nations, a scarecrow in a cucumber field, and Jacob's portion is the Lord who formed all things.
Session 3 · Jeremiah 11–15
A broken covenant, and a prophet who argues.
- The covenant from Sinai is read again and declared broken, a conspiracy is found, and the people of Anathoth plot to silence the prophet from the Lord.
- Jeremiah asks why the wicked prosper, and the Lord answers that worse is coming, while promising that he will restore neighbors and pluck up the house of Judah.
- A linen loincloth is ruined by the Euphrates, wine jars are filled, and the people are told they will be smashed like those jars if they will not hear.
- A drought exposes false prophets who speak peace, the people confess their guilt and then keep going, and the Lord says he will not accept their offering.
- The Lord tells Jeremiah that even Moses and Samuel could not turn away this judgment, and the prophet laments his birth before he is told to return.
Session 4 · Jeremiah 16–20
A potter's wheel, a broken flask, and fire in the bones.
- Jeremiah is forbidden the ordinary comforts of marriage, mourning, and feasting, because the land is under a judgment that will still not be the end of the story.
- Judah's sin is written with an iron pen, the heart is deceitful above all things, and the Sabbath is held up as the test of whether the city will stand.
- At the potter's house the vessel is remade in the potter's hands, and the Lord claims the freedom both to uproot a nation and to relent if it turns.
- The broken flask in the valley of Hinnom preaches irreversible judgment on Jerusalem, and Topheth will become a burial place for want of room.
- Pashhur beats Jeremiah and puts him in the stocks, and the prophet accuses God of deceiving him even while the word is a fire shut up in his bones.
Session 5 · Jeremiah 21–25
Bad shepherds, a righteous Branch, and seventy years.
- Zedekiah asks about Nebuchadnezzar, and the Lord offers the city a way of life and a way of death, with surrender as the path of life.
- The palace is told to do justice, Shallum and Jehoiakim are rebuked, and Coniah is flung out like a signet the Lord will not restore to that throne.
- Woe falls on shepherds who scatter the flock, a righteous Branch is promised to David, and prophets who steal dreams are opposed to the word like wheat and chaff.
- Two baskets of figs are set before the temple: good figs whom the Lord will watch over for good in exile, and bad figs who will be ruined.
- Seventy years are appointed for Babylon, the cup of wrath is passed to the nations, and the prophet is told to drink no denial of that cup.
Session 6 · Jeremiah 26–30
A yoke on the neck, and a letter to exiles.
- Jeremiah is tried for the temple sermon and threatened with death, some elders recall Micah, and Uriah is martyred while Jeremiah is spared.
- The prophet wears a yoke and warns envoys not to believe lies, for the Lord has given nations into Nebuchadnezzar's hand for a measured time.
- Hananiah breaks the wooden yoke and promises a quick return, and Jeremiah answers that the bars will be iron and that Hananiah will die that year.
- The letter to the exiles tells them to build, plant, marry, and seek the peace of the city, for seventy years will pass before the Lord visits them.
- The book of consolation opens with a promise that Jacob's distress will end in restoration, strangers will no longer enslave, and a ruler will come from their midst.
Session 7 · Jeremiah 31–35
A new covenant written on the heart.
- Rachel weeps for her children, Ephraim repents, and the Lord promises a new covenant with Israel and Judah, his law written on their hearts.
- In the siege Jeremiah buys a field at Anathoth, stores the deeds in a jar, and is told that houses and vineyards will again be possessed in the land.
- The Lord promises healing, a righteous Branch for David, and a covenant as sure as the day and the night, with priests who will not lack a man.
- Zedekiah's covenant to free Hebrew slaves is made and then broken, and the Lord says the city will be given to Babylon because the powerful took liberty back.
- The Rechabites refuse wine in obedience to their father Jonadab, and their fidelity is set as a rebuke to Judah, who will not obey the Lord.
Session 8 · Jeremiah 36–40
A burned scroll, a cistern, and a fallen city.
- Baruch reads Jeremiah's scroll in the temple, the princes hear it with fear, and Jehoiakim cuts the columns and burns them in the fire until the whole scroll is gone.
- Zedekiah asks for prayer while still disobeying, Jeremiah is imprisoned in the court, and the king will not heed the word that going out to the Chaldeans would save his life.
- Officials lower Jeremiah into a cistern of mud to die, and Ebed-melech the Ethiopian persuades the king to lift him out with rags and ropes before the city falls.
- Jerusalem's wall is breached, Zedekiah is captured, his sons are killed, his eyes are put out, the temple is burned, and the chief men are taken to Babylon.
- Gedaliah is appointed governor at Mizpah, Jeremiah chooses to stay with the poor remnant rather than go to Babylon, and a brief, fragile peace is offered to the land.
Session 9 · Jeremiah 41–45
A murdered governor, and a flight into Egypt.
- Ishmael of the royal seed murders Gedaliah at Mizpah, kills pilgrims, and throws bodies into a cistern, until Johanan pursues him and the remnant is left afraid.
- The captains ask Jeremiah to pray for the way they should go, promising to obey the voice of the Lord whether it is pleasant or not.
- The Lord says stay in the land and he will build them, and do not go to Egypt, but Johanan calls the word a lie and leads the people there anyway.
- In Egypt the remnant burns incense to the queen of heaven, claims that offerings brought prosperity, and hears Jeremiah say this stubborn worship will consume them.
- Baruch is told not to seek great things for himself, for the Lord will give him his life as a prize of war wherever he goes.
Session 10 · Jeremiah 46–50
Oracles over nations, and a God of the map.
- Egypt is told that her mercenaries and the day of Pharaoh will not stand, and Jacob is promised a latter day of quiet after the Lord has struck him.
- Philistia hears the sound of fathers who do not turn back for their children, for the day coming to cut off every inhabitant of the coastland is from the Lord.
- Moab's pride, complacency, and famous cities are lamented and judged, her god Chemosh goes into exile, and yet the Lord promises to restore Moab in the latter days.
- Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam are addressed in turn, and even Elam is told that the Lord will set his throne there and restore her fortunes at the end.
- Babylon, the golden cup in the Lord's hand, is herself sentenced, Israel and Judah are called sheep driven away, and their Redeemer is strong, the Lord of hosts.
Session 11 · Jeremiah 51–52
Babylon sunk, and a king lifted from prison.
- The Lord finishes his case against Babylon, tells his people to remember him and flee, and commands the scroll of these words to be sunk in the Euphrates as a sign that she will rise no more.
- Jerusalem's fall is told again in full, the temple vessels are carried off, the leaders are executed, and in his thirty-seventh year Jehoiachin is released and given a seat above the kings who are with him.