God humbles Egypt and comforts Israel: the day is his, idols fail, and discipline is measured for Jacob’s peace.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
God humbles Egypt and comforts Israel: the day is his, idols fail, and discipline is measured for Jacob’s peace.
Scattered across Egypt, Judeans defend vows to the Queen of Heaven and reject the Lord’s call to repent. Jeremiah answers with a history lesson, an unflinching sentence, and a sign against Pharaoh Hophra so the remnant will know whose word stands.
Jeremiah 39 records the fall of Jerusalem with calendar precision and personal mercy. Zedekiah is captured, the city burns, and yet the Lord preserves his prophet and promises life to a humble servant who trusted him.
Jeremiah 34 confronts oath-breaking under siege: a public release of Hebrew slaves is revoked, and God answers with a mirror verdict. The chapter ties worship to justice and shows mercy’s thread in Zedekiah’s promised end.
Jeremiah 25 names a measured judgment—seventy years—and a universal cup that even empires must drink. It teaches communities to listen now, endure under God’s clock, and hope in the Lord who disciplines to heal and governs to save.
Two baskets before the temple divide the community by response, not address. God calls exiles “good,” promises to build and plant them, and gives a heart to know him, while stubborn schemes collapse under sword, famine, and plague.
Jeremiah 21 overturns easy hopes for miracles by calling a besieged city to obey God’s present word: surrender to live and do justice every morning. The warning is severe, but mercy threads through it for all who listen and turn.
Jeremiah 19 pictures judgment the way a shattered jar sounds—sharp, decisive, deserved. Yet even here the Lord’s long plan aims beyond the shards, calling us to listen, turn, and hope in his restoring mercy.
At the potter’s wheel Jeremiah learns how God’s sovereignty and our responsibility meet: warnings aim at rescue, and promises call for obedience. Yield to the Lord’s shaping hands today, for he delights to rebuild what sin has marred.
Jeremiah 16 forbids marriage, mourning, and feasting to signal judgment, yet promises a return from the north that will outshine the exodus. The chapter ends with nations renouncing idols as God teaches them his power and name.
Jeremiah 15 closes the door on easy intercession and opens one for a weary prophet. The Lord judges a stubborn people, then restores his servant with “worthy words” and a wall of bronze, teaching endurance and hope in the heat of crisis.
Under a sky that will not open, Jeremiah leads Judah to confess sin, reject false peace, and appeal to God’s name. The Lord refuses empty ritual yet invites tears and hope that rests in him, the only one who sends rain.
Jeremiah 13 uses vivid sign-acts to reveal how pride rots nearness to God. The prophet pleads for humility—“give glory before darkness”—and promises tears for a flock on the brink, urging renewal that turns shame into praise.
Jeremiah 12 pairs reverent complaint with God’s call to endurance. The Lord judges a beloved field, then promises compassion and invites the nations to learn his name, turning uprooting into the beginning of restoration.