Jeremiah.
The "weeping prophet" — God's judgment on a faithless people, and the promise of a new covenant beyond it.
Who wrote Jeremiah?
Jeremiah, with his scribe Baruch.
Who was it written for?
Judah on the brink of destruction, then in exile.
Structure
- Prophecies of judgment (1–25)
- Narrative of Jeremiah's suffering (26–45)
- Oracles against the nations (46–51)
- The fall of Jerusalem (52)
Key verses
Why Jeremiah matters
Jeremiah preached for forty years to a people who refused to listen. The cost was personal — he was beaten, imprisoned, dropped in a cistern. But his promise of a new covenant (31:31–34), with the law written on the heart, is one of the great Old Testament prophecies that the New Testament identifies with Christ (Hebrews 8). The faithfulness even when no one listens is the book's deepest theme.
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