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Can Mortals Manufacture Gods? 1 God’s Message to me: 2-4 “Jeremiah, don’t get married. Don’t raise a family here. I have signed the death warrant on all the children born in this country, the mothers who bear them and the fathers who beget them—an epidemic of death. Death unlamented, the dead unburied, dead bodies decomposing […]

The Heart Is Hopelessly Dark and Deceitful 1-2 “Judah’s sin is engraved with a steel chisel, A steel chisel with a diamond point— engraved on their granite hearts, engraved on the stone corners of their altars. The evidence against them is plain to see: sex-and-religion altars and sacred sex shrines Anywhere there’s a grove of […]

To Worship the Big Lie 1-2 Godtold Jeremiah, “Up on your feet! Go to the potter’s house. When you get there, I’ll tell you what I have to say.” 3-4 So I went to the potter’s house, and sure enough, the potter was there, working away at his wheel. Whenever the pot the potter was […]

Smashing the Clay Pot 1-2 Godsaid to me, “Go, buy a clay pot. Then get a few leaders from the people and a few of the leading priests and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, just outside the Potsherd Gate, and preach there what I tell you. 3-5 “Say, ‘Listen toGod’s Word, you kings […]

Life’s Been Nothing but Trouble and Tears 1-5 The priest Pashur son of Immer was the senior priest inGod’s Temple. He heard Jeremiah preach this sermon. He whipped Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate ofGod’s Temple. The next day Pashur came and let him go. Jeremiah told […]

Start Each Day with a Sense of Justice 1-2 God’s Message to Jeremiah when King Zedekiah sent Pashur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to him with this request: “Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has waged war against us. Pray toGodfor us. Ask him for help. MaybeGodwill intervene with one of his […]

Walking Out on the Covenant of God 1-3 God’s orders: “Go to the royal palace and deliver this Message. Say, ‘Listen to whatGodsays, O King of Judah, you who sit on David’s throne—you and your officials and all the people who go in and out of these palace gates. This isGod’s Message: Attend to matters […]

An Authentic David-Branch 1-4 “Doom to the shepherd-leaders who butcher and scatter my sheep!”God’s Decree. “So here is what I,God, Israel’s God, say to the shepherd-leaders who misled my people: ‘You’ve scattered my sheep. You’ve driven them off. You haven’t kept your eye on them. Well, let me tell you, I’m keeping my eye onyou, […]

Two Baskets of Figs 1-2 Godshowed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the Temple ofGod. This was after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem into exile in Babylon, along with the leaders of Judah, the craftsmen, and the skilled laborers. In one basket […]

Don’t Follow the God-Fads of the Day 1 This is the Message given to Jeremiah for all the people of Judah. It came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah. It was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 2 Jeremiah the prophet delivered the Message to all the […]