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Jeremiah 1
[Bible]Jeremiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It contains the book's superscription, the account of Jeremiah's call to be a prophet, and two visions: the rod of an almond tree and the seething pot.
Jeremiah 8
[Bible]Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.
Jeremiah 5
[Bible]Jeremiah 5 opens with the charge that not a single person who acts justly can be found in Jerusalem. The chapter rebukes idolatry, injustice, and false prophecy, and announces judgment through a distant nation.
Jeremiah 12
[Bible]Jeremiah 12 contains Jeremiah's complaint asking why the wicked prosper, the LORD's reply, the LORD's lament over having given His own people into the hands of their enemies, and a promise of judgment and restoration for the neighboring nations.
Jeremiah 3
[Bible]Jeremiah 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It rebukes idolatrous Israel and Judah by likening them to a wife who has betrayed her husband, yet it also calls them to repentance and restoration with the words "Return, ye backsliding children."
Jeremiah 2
[Bible]Jeremiah 2 is a prophecy in which the LORD recalls Israel's first love in the wilderness and rebukes the people for forsaking him, the fountain of living waters, and relying instead on idols, Egypt, and Assyria.
Jeremiah 9
[Bible]Jeremiah 9 is a chapter in which the prophet and the LORD lament over Judah, a nation filled with deceit and idolatry, and pronounce judgment upon it. It contains the exhortation not to glory in wisdom, might, or riches, but to glory in knowing the LORD (verses 23–24).
Jeremiah 7
[Bible]Jeremiah 7 contains the so-called "Temple Sermon," which Jeremiah proclaimed at the gate of the temple. It rebukes Judah for trusting in the mere presence of the temple while refusing to forsake sin, and warns that the nation will be judged as Shiloh was.
Jeremiah 16
[Bible]Jeremiah 16 is the chapter in which God forbids Jeremiah to marry or to enter houses of mourning and feasting, making his life a sign of the judgment coming on Judah. The chapter also promises both a day of return from exile and a day when the nations will turn to the LORD.
Jeremiah 6
[Bible]Jeremiah 6 is a prophecy warning that an enemy from the north will besiege Jerusalem. It rebukes a people who refuse to repent, along with the prophets and priests who offer false comfort by saying "Peace."
Jeremiah 11
[Bible]Jeremiah 11 is the chapter in which Jeremiah proclaims disaster on Judah for breaking the covenant made at the time of the Exodus. Its latter part recounts a plot by the people of his hometown, Anathoth, to kill him.
Jeremiah 13
[Bible]In this chapter Jeremiah hides a linen girdle by the Euphrates and later recovers it ruined, a symbolic act showing that Judah's pride will be marred. Together with the parable of the wine bottles, the chapter warns that the royal house and Jerusalem will be carried into captivity.
Jeremiah 20
[Bible]Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.
Jeremiah 15
[Bible]Jeremiah 15 contains God's irrevocable declaration of judgment against the people, along with Jeremiah's lament amid persecution and God's promise of restoration.
Jeremiah 10
[Bible]Jeremiah 10 contrasts the idols of the nations, carved from wood by human hands, with the living LORD who made heaven and earth, and records Judah's lament and prayer in the face of disaster approaching from the north.
Jeremiah 17
[Bible]Jeremiah 17 addresses Judah's deep-rooted sin and coming judgment, contrasts the one who trusts in man with the one who trusts in the LORD, records Jeremiah's prayer of lament, and presents the message on Sabbath observance that he proclaimed at the city gates.
Jeremiah 24
[Bible]Jeremiah 24 records the vision Jeremiah saw before the temple after Jeconiah was carried away to Babylon: two baskets of figs, one good and one bad. The chapter contrasts the future of those taken into exile with that of those who remained in the land.
Jeremiah 14
[Bible]Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."
Jeremiah 19
[Bible]Jeremiah 19 is the chapter in which Jeremiah buys a potter's earthen bottle and breaks it in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, proclaiming that Jerusalem will be destroyed beyond repair because of its idolatry and child sacrifice.
Jeremiah 28
[Bible]Jeremiah 28 is the chapter in which Hananiah prophesies that the yoke of Babylon will be broken within two years and breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke, after which Jeremiah proclaims a yoke of iron and foretells Hananiah's death.