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The Call and Commission of Jeremiah Israel's Unfaithfulness and Call to Repentance Judah's Spiritual Adultery and Call to Return The Coming Calamity on the Land An Accusation against Jerusalem's Corruption The Siege and Devastation of Jerusalem The Temple Sermon: False Security Condemned Violence and Corruption in the Land Persistent Idolatry and Coming Punishment The Folly of Idols Judah's Flight and Jeremiah's Lament A Prayer for Direction and Deliverance The Broken Covenant and a Public Warning Conspiracy against Jeremiah and God's Vindication Jeremiah's Complaint to God A Call to Endure and Judgment on Nations The Linen Belt: Symbol of Judah's Humiliation A Sign of Shame and Pronounced Judgment A Lament of Shame and Imminent Disaster Famine, False Prophets, and Divine Judgment Symbolic Acts and the People's Sinfulness Warning about Sabbath Violations The Potter and the Broken Jar: Judgment on Jerusalem Persecution by Pashhur the Priest Jeremiah's Lament and Resolve A Message to the Royal House: Doom for Jerusalem Judgment on the Kings and Royal House False Shepherds Condemned and a Righteous Branch Promised Condemnation of False Prophets The Lord Rebukes False Oracles The Two Figs: Exile and Remnant Seventy Years of Babylonian Dominion The Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations Jeremiah's Temple Address, Arrest, and Vindication The Yoke of Babylon and Call to Submit Hananiah's False Prophecy and Its Rebuke Letter to the Exiles: Seek the Welfare of Babylon Shemaiah's Letter and Its Condemnation The Book of Comfort: Restoration and the New Covenant Jeremiah Buys a Field: Faith and Hope in Captivity Promise of Restoration and the Davidic Covenant Zedekiah's Appeal and Jeremiah's Warning Breach of Covenant and Punishment for Oppression The Rechabites' Fidelity as a Rebuke to Judah Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Words and the Scroll Is Burned Jeremiah Imprisoned during the Siege of Jerusalem Jeremiah Cast into a Cistern Ebed‑Melech Rescues Jeremiah; Zedekiah's Failure The Fall of Jerusalem and Jeremiah's Release Gedaliah Appointed Governor and Jeremiah's Choice Assassination of Gedaliah and the Terror in Judah Rejection of Jeremiah's Counsel and Flight to Egypt The Jews in Egypt: Idolatry and Condemnation A Word to Baruch: Encouragement and Warning Oracles against Egypt Judgment on the Philistines Judgment on Moab Judgment on Ammon Judgment on Edom Judgment on Damascus and Aram Destruction of Kedar and the Nomads Judgment on Elam and Future Restoration Judgment on Babylon and Its Final Fall The Fall of Jerusalem and Zedekiah's Fate Jehoiachin's Release from Babylonian Captivity

The Call and Commission of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, from the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. 2 which was the word of the LORD to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his kingdom. 3 It was in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month. 4 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out from the womb I sanctified you; a prophet to the nations I gave you. 6 And I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth." 7 The LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and all that I command you you shall speak." 8 Do not fear their faces, for I am with you to rescue you, says the LORD. 9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth." 10 See, I have appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to uproot and to tear down and to destroy and to demolish, to build and to plant. 11 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I said, "I see an almond rod." 12 The LORD said to me, "You have done well to see it, for I am watchful over my words to perform them." 13 The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, "What have you seen?" And I said, "I have seen a pot boiling, with its face from the north." 14 And the LORD said to me, "From the north evil will break open upon all the inhabitants of the earth." 15 For behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north—the utterance of the LORD—and they will come and they will set each man his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah. 16 And I will speak their judgments over all their evil, which they forsook me and they offered incense to other gods and they prostrated themselves to the works of their hands. 17 So you, gird your loins, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed before their faces, lest I dismay you before their faces. 18 And I, behold, I have given you today as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and as bronze walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its officials, to its priests, and to the people of the land. 19 And they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to rescue you.