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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

Violence and Corruption in the Land

Jeremiah 7:30-8:3

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Chapter 7
30 For the sons of Judah have done evil in my eyes, says the LORD. They have put their detestable idols in the house over which my name is called, to ritually defile it. 31 They built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire—which I did not command, and which did not arise in my heart. 32 Therefore, behold, days are coming, says the LORD, and it will no longer be called Tophet and the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but rather the Valley of Slaughter, and they will bury in Tophet for lack of place. 33 The carcass of this people will be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 34 And I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem a voice of rejoicing and a voice of joy, a voice of bridegroom and a voice of bride, for the earth will become a desolation.
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Chapter 8
1 At that time, says the LORD: They will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its rulers and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves. 2 They will spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they loved and which they served and which they walked after and which they inquired of and which they prostrated themselves to. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground. 3 Death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant, those remaining from this evil family, in all the places where you drove them—those remaining there, says the LORD of Hosts.