Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+005   Jeremiah 5 (ESV) 14 Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: “Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them. 15 Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+004   Jeremiah 4 (ESV) 19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Crash follows hard on crash; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+003   Jeremiah 3 (ESV) 11 And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the Lord. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord; I will not be angry forever. 13 Only acknowledge […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+002   Jeremiah 2 (ESV) 1 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. 3 Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jeremiah+001   JEREMIAH INTRODUCTION The prophet Jeremiah spoke to the kingdom of Judah for forty years—from the end of the Assyrian period until Judah was destroyed by Babylon. The book mixes sermons, prophetic oracles, and biographical narratives of Jeremiah’s experiences during the last years of the Judean kingdom. We are given […]