Ezekiel 45 maps holiness onto land, leadership, markets, and time. The sacred district, just scales, and festival calendar display a people reordered by God’s presence.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
Ezekiel 45 maps holiness onto land, leadership, markets, and time. The sacred district, just scales, and festival calendar display a people reordered by God’s presence.
Ezekiel 34 indicts self-serving shepherds and reveals the Lord as the true Shepherd who searches, rescues, and rules through His servant David. Under His covenant of peace, showers fall, yokes break, and the flock learns again that He is with them.
Ezekiel 33 ties love to warning and mercy to justice. The watchman sounds the horn, God pleads for life, and hearers must turn today rather than admire sermons tomorrow.
Ezekiel 22 confronts Jerusalem as a “city of bloodshed,” exposing corruption from palace to pulpit and promising a furnace of refining judgment. The chapter calls communities back to truthful worship, just dealings, and courageous intercession.
Lamentations 5 gathers the city’s losses into a single prayer and fixes its eyes on the throne: “Restore us to yourself.” It shows how to confess, ask, and wait under the King whose reign endures.
Lamentations 4 catalogs the city’s reversals and names the holy reason for them. Yet the poem ends with a promise: Zion’s punishment will end, and the cup will pass to those who mocked her.
Lamentations 3 turns from darkness to hope without denying either. It teaches sufferers to remember God’s character, return to him, wait quietly, and pray for justice while trusting mercies new every morning.
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 26 turns worship into a courtroom where God invites reform so he may relent. The city spares Jeremiah, slays Uriah, and learns that sacred space cannot shield a people who refuse the Lord’s word.
Jeremiah 23 pronounces woe on corrupt shepherds and promises a righteous King whose wise rule brings safety. It exposes false prophecy and calls communities to love the fiery, faithful word that gathers and heals God’s flock.
Jeremiah 22 confronts the palace with God’s measure of true rule: defend the weak and do what is right. Cedar cannot cover injustice; judgment teaches a city to listen, and hope rises in the promised Branch who makes justice durable.
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.
Jeremiah 17 diagnoses sin carved on the heart and points to the Lord as living water and sanctuary. It calls for rooted trust and public Sabbath obedience that turns cities toward enduring joy.
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.