Old Testament Major Prophets 52 chapters
Jeremiah
The "weeping prophet" pleads with Judah for forty years to repent before Babylon comes; he suffers rejection, watches Jerusalem fall, yet proclaims a new covenant written on the heart.
Outline
- Ch. 1 Jeremiah's call
- Ch. 2–25 Sermons of warning: broken cisterns (2), temple sermon (7), the potter (18), seventy years of exile (25)
- Ch. 26–29 Conflict with false prophets; letter to the exiles (29:11)
- Ch. 30–33 The Book of Consolation: restoration and the new covenant (31:31–34)
- Ch. 34–45 Jerusalem's last days; Jeremiah imprisoned; the fall (39); aftermath in Egypt
- Ch. 46–51 Oracles against the nations, ending with Babylon
- Ch. 52 Historical appendix: the fall of Jerusalem