Jeremiah 36 follows a scroll from temple steps to a royal firepot. The king burns it; God rewrites it—and adds more. Courageous hearing and humble repentance remain the path to mercy.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
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 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.
From Job’s lament to Paul’s teaching, the potter-and-clay image shows God shaping humanity with sovereign mercy. Yield to his hands and find hope that even the marred can be remade for honorable use.
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 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.
Bones under sun and moon, soothing lies, and a missing harvest frame Jeremiah 8’s indictment. The prophet laments, asking about the balm in Gilead, and directs readers toward the only healing deep enough to reach the wound.
Jeremiah exposes the Queen of Heaven rites as self-harming idolatry and calls Judah back to obedient worship. The sermon at the temple gate ties household devotion to public justice and promises restoration beyond judgment for those who listen.
Jeremiah 7 confronts Judah’s trust in a building while rejecting God’s ways. The gate-sermon ties life in the land to justice and loyal obedience, warns with Shiloh’s precedent, and promises restoration beyond judgment for those who hear.
Jeremiah 6 unfolds alarms and a crossroads: the city can walk the ancient paths and find rest or ignore the trumpet and face siege. The chapter unmasks false peace, rejects ritual without righteousness, and preserves hope with mercy that limits ruin.
Jeremiah 5 turns Jerusalem into a test case for covenant life, searching the city for a single honest truth-seeker. The chapter exposes leaders and people alike, warns of devouring judgment, and preserves hope with a word that limits ruin and promises future planting.
Jeremiah 4 opens a door of repentance while the trumpet of judgment sounds from the north. The chapter urges heart-circumcision, exposes false peace, and anchors hope in God’s preserving mercy that promises rebuilding after ruin.