Disaster because of idolatry

The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.

The Fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah is thrown into a cistern, the Babylonians invade, Jeremiah is freed, Israel cries out to God

The Recabite family is made an example, Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll, Jeremiah is placed in prison

Jeremiah told to buy a field, given a promise of restoration, a warning to Zedekiah, freedom for the slaves.

He who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the LORD Almighty is his name. “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the LORD, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.”

“When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

Jeremiah threatened with death, prophecy against Judah

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says…