Pharaoh claims the Nile and meets the Lord who owns it. Ezekiel 29 recounts forty years of desolation, a humbled Egypt, Babylon’s wages, and a horn raised for Israel.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Pharaoh claims the Nile and meets the Lord who owns it. Ezekiel 29 recounts forty years of desolation, a humbled Egypt, Babylon’s wages, and a horn raised for Israel.
Ezekiel 28 humbles a sea-throne that claimed divinity, sings a lament over corrupted glory, judges a violent neighbor, and promises Israel secure life in the land.
Ezekiel 27 turns Tyre into a splendid ship and then a wreck, teaching nations to grieve pride and to turn wealth into worship under God’s rule.
Tyre’s gloat over Jerusalem meets God’s waves of judgment. Ezekiel 26 turns a proud harbor into a bare rock to teach nations who truly rules the sea.
Ezekiel 25 turns outward from Jerusalem to four neighboring nations that mocked, taunted, and attacked. Each oracle delivers measured justice with a single aim: that all will know the Lord.
Ezekiel 24 names the day the siege begins and interprets it with a parable of a burning pot and a sign in the prophet’s own home. The chapter exposes stubborn impurity and prepares the way for cleansing and restored speech after judgment.
Ezekiel 23 uses a shocking sister-parable to expose covenant infidelity and its consequences. It also points toward hope: jealous love that ends lewdness and restores true worship.
Ezekiel 21 declares that the Lord Himself has unsheathed the sword against Jerusalem, exposing false hopes in sanctuary and scepter. Yet within judgment rises a promise: the crown will rest on the one to whom it truly belongs.
Lamentations 2 shows the Lord as the main actor in Jerusalem’s fall and calls survivors to night-watch prayer. It exposes false comfort and redirects worship toward obedience and truth.
Lamentations 1 teaches the grammar of grief under God: name the pain, confess sin, and cry to the Lord who sees. The chapter’s “no comforter” refrain turns hearts from false help to the only true comfort.
Jeremiah 52 anchors prophecy in dates, names, and inventories to show judgment landing in history. Yet the book closes with daily bread for a captive king, signaling that God’s mercy still threads through the ruins.
Jeremiah 51 concentrates the Lord’s verdict on Babylon and his care for Zion. This study follows the chapter’s images and promises to show justice and mercy in God’s plan.
Babylon’s idols fall while a weeping remnant asks the way to Zion. Jeremiah 50 unites justice and mercy as God topples pride and leads his flock home under a strong Redeemer.
Jeremiah 49 surveys Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar/Hazor, and Elam. Through sharp justice and surprising promises, the chapter shows how God breaks false security and yet restores in due season.
Jeremiah 48 traces Moab’s fall from complacent pride to shattered jars and silent presses. Through tears and taunt, the chapter ends with a glimmer of future mercy that keeps hope alive beyond judgment.