Contains the Biography and Message of “The Weeping Prophet”

THE PERIOD, Dark days in the Kingdom of Judah,-from the thirteenth year of Josiah (the last good king) until some years beyond the captivity.

MAIN THEMES, The Backsliding, Bondage, and Restoration of the Jews.

THE LIFE OF JEREMIAH
Family # Jer 1:1
Birth, and Divine choice as Prophet # Jer 1:5
Youthful Call,-in the days of King Josiah # Jer 1:2-6
Divine Enduement # Jer 1:9
Commission # Jer 1:10
Promise of Divine Presence # Jer 1:19
Pressure of Duty upon # Jer 20:9
Sustained by the Word of God # Jer 15:16
Persecution of, predicted # Jer 1:19
Put in the Stocks # Jer 20:2
In a miry Dungeon # Jer 38:6
Carried into Egypt # Jer 43:5-7

SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK
(1) Call of the prophet, ch. 1 # Jer 1:1
(2) Rebukes, Warnings, and Promises to the Jews, chs. 2-20 # Jer 2:1 – 20:1
(3) A Denunciation of rulers, and also of False Shepherds and Prophets, chs. 21-23  Jer 21:1 – 23:1
(4) Predictions of Divine Judgments, the Overthrow of Jerusalem, and the Seventy Years  captivity, chs. 25-29 # Jer 25:1 – 29:1
(5) Promises of the Restoration of the Jews, chs. 30-33 # Jer 30:1 – 33:1
(6) Prophecies occasioned by the sins of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, chs. 34-39 # Jer 34:1 – 39:1
(7) The wretched condition of the Remnant left in Judah, and Prophecies uttered to them, chs. 40-44 # Jer 40:1 – 44:1
(8) Consolation to Baruch, ch. 45 # Jer 45:1
(9) Prophecies concerning the Hostile Nations, chs. 46-51  # Jer 46:1 – 51:1

THE MESSAGE
(1) Some High Spots In
(a) The fountain and cistern # Jer 2:13
(b) The ineradicable stain of sin # Jer 2:22
(c) The search for a man # Jer 5:1
(d) The old ways, best # Jer 6:16
(e) The lost opportunity # Jer 8:20
(f) The tearful call to repentance # Jer 9:1
(g) The depravity of the human heart # Jer 17:9
(h) The clay and the potter, ch. 18 # Jer 18:1
(i) The false Shepherds, ch. 23 # Jer 23:1
(j) How to find God # Jer 29:13
(k) The new covenant # Jer 31:31-34
(l) The mutilation of God’s Word # Jer 36:21-24

(2) Rejected
(a) By his neighbors # Jer 11:19-21
(b) By his own family # Jer 12:6
(c) By the priests and prophets # Jer 20:1,2
(d) By his friends # Jer 20:10
(e) By all the people # Jer 26:8
(f) By the King # Jer 36:23