1 The time,
4 and the calling of Jeremiah.
11 His prophetical visions of an almond rod and a seething pot.
15 His heavy message against Judah.
17 God encourages him with his promise of assistance.
1 God having shewed his former kindness, expostulates with the Jews on their causeless and unexampled revolt.
14 They are the causes of their own calamities.
18 The sins and idolatries of Judah.
35 Her confidence is rejected.
1 God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom.
6 Judah is worse than Israel.
12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent.
20 Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins.
1 God calls Israel by his promise.
3 He exhorts Judah to repentance by fearful judgments.
19 A grievous lamentation for Judah.
1 The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness;
7 for their adultery;
10 for their impiety;
15 for their worship of idols;
19 for their contempt of God;
25 and for their great corruption in the civil state;
30 and ecclesiastical.
1 The enemies sent against Judah,
4 encourage themselves.
6 God sets them on work because of their sins.
9 The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18 He proclaims God's wrath.
26 He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.
1 Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity.
8 He rejects their vain confidence,
12 by the example of Shiloh.
17 He threatens them for their idolatry.
21 He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient.
29 He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet;
32 and the judgments for the same.
1 The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive.
4 He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitency.
13 He shews their grievous judgment;
18 and bewails their desperate estate.
1 Jeremiah laments the Jews for their manifold sins;
9 and for their judgment.
12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity.
17 He exhorts to mourn for their destruction;
23 and to trust not in themselves, but in God.
25 He threatens both Jews and Gentiles.
1 The unequal comparison of God and idols.
17 The prophet exhorts to flee from the calamity to come.
19 He laments the spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastors.
23 He makes an humble supplication.
1 Jeremiah proclaims God's covenant;
8 rebukes the Jews' disobeying thereof;
11 prophesies evils to come upon them;
18 and upon the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill him.
1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prosperity, by faith sees their ruin.
5 God admonishes him of his brethren's treachery against him;
7 and laments his heritage.
14 He promises to the penitent return from captivity.
1 By the type of a linen girdle, hidden at Euphrates, God prefigures the destruction of his people.
12 Under the parable of the bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.
15 He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.
22 He shews their abominations are the cause thereof.
1 The grievous famine,
7 causes Jeremiah to pray.
10 The Lord will not be intreated for the people.
13 Lying prophets are no excuse for them.
17 Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.
1 The utter rejection and manifold judgments of the Jews.
10 Jeremiah, complaining of their spite, receives a promise for himself;
12 and a threatening for them.
15 He prays;
19 and receives a gracious promise.
1 The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshews the utter ruin of the Jews;
10 because they were worse than their fathers.
14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry.
1 The captivity of Judah for her sin.
5 Trust in man is cursed;
7 in God is blessed.
9 The deceitful heart cannot deceive God.
12 The salvation of God.
15 The prophet complains of the mockers of his prophecy.
19 He is sent to renew the covenant in hallowing the sabbath.
1 Under the type of a potter is shewn God's absolute power in disposing of nations.
11 Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt.
18 Jeremiah prays against his conspirators.
1 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, is foreshewn the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
1 Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom.
7 Jeremiah complains of contempt;
10 of treachery;
14 and of his birth.
1 Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to enquire the event of Nebuchadnezzar's war.
3 Jeremiah foretells a hard seige and miserable captivity.
8 He counsels the people to fall to the Chaldeans;
11 and upbraids the King's house.
1 He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats.
10 The judgment of Shallum;
13 of Jehoiakim;
20 and of Coniah.
1 He prophesies a restoration of the scattered flock.
5 Christ shall rule and save them.
9 Against false prophets;
33 and mockers of the true prophets.
1 Under the type of good and bad figs,
4 he foreshews the restoration of them that were in captivity;
8 and the desolation of Zedekiah and the rest.
1 Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,
8 foretells the seventy years' captivity;
12 and after that, the destruction of Babylon.
15 Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshews the destruction of all nations.
34 The howling of the shepherds.
1 Jeremiah by promises and threatenings exhorts to repentance.
8 He is therefore apprehended,
10 and arraigned.
12 His apology.
16 He is quit in judgment, by the example of Micah,
20 and of Urijah,
24 and by the care of Ahikam.
1 Under the type of bonds and yokes he prophesies the subduing of the neighbour kings unto Nebuchadnezzar.
8 He exhorts them to yield, and not to believe the false prophets.
12 The like he does to Zedekiah.
19 He foretells the remnant of the vessels shall be carried to Babylon, and there continue until the day of visitation.
1 Hananiah prophesies falsely the return of the vessels, and of Jeconiah.
5 Jeremiah, wishing it to be true, shews that the event will declare the true prophets.
10 Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke.
12 Jeremiah tells of an iron yoke;
15 and foretells Hananiah's death.
1 Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there,
8 and not to believe the dreams of their prophets;
10 and that they shall return with grace after seventy years.
15 He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience.
20 He shews the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two lying prophets.
24 Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah.
30 Jeremiah foretells his doom.
1 God shews Jeremiah the return of the Jews.
4 After their trouble they shall have deliverance.
10 He comforts Jacob.
18 Their return shall be gracious.
23 Wrath shall fall on the wicked.
1 The restoration of Israel.
10 The publication thereof.
15 Rahel mourning is comforted.
18 Ephraim repenting is brought home again.
22 Christ is promised.
27 His care over the church.
31 His new covenant.
35 The stability,
38 and amplitude of the church.
1 Jeremiah, being imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophecy,
6 buys Hanameel's field.
13 Baruch must preserve the evidences, as tokens of the people's return.
16 Jeremiah in his prayer complains to God.
26 God confirms the captivity for their sins;
36 and promises a gracious return.
1 God promises to the captivity a gracious return;
9 a joyful state;
12 a settled government;
15 Christ the branch of righteousness;
17 a continuance of kingdom and priesthood;
19 and a stability of a blessed seed.
1 Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.
8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants, contrary to the covenant of God, re-assume them.
12 Jeremiah, for their disobedience, gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.
1 By the obedience of the Rechabites,
12 Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.
18 God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.
1 Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy,
5 and publicly to read it.
11 The princes, having intelligence thereof by Michaiah, send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it.
19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah.
20 The king, Jehoiakim, being certified thereof, hears part of it, and burns the roll.
27 Jeremiah denounces his judgment.
32 Baruch writes a new copy.
1 The Egyptians having raised the seige of the Chaldeans, king Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to pray for the people.
6 Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory.
11 He is taken for a fugitive, beaten, and put in prison.
16 He assures Zedekiah of the captivity.
18 Intreating for his liberty, he obtains some favour.
1 Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah.
7 Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement.
14 Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding to save his life.
24 By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.
1 Jerusalem is taken.
4 Zedekiah is made blind and sent to Babylon.
8 The city laid in ruins,
9 and the people captivated.
11 Nebuchadrezzar's charge for the good usage of Jeremiah.
15 God's promise to Ebed-melech.
1 Jeremiah, being set free by Nebuzar-adan, goes to Gedaliah.
7 The dispersed Jews repair unto him.
13 Johanan revealing Ishmael's conspiracy is not believed.
1 Ishmael, treacherously killing Gedaliah and others, purposes with the residue to flee unto the Ammonites.
11 Johanan recovers the captives, and is minded to flee into Egypt.
1 Johanan desires Jeremiah to enquire of God, promising obedience to his will.
7 Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea;
13 and destruction in Egypt.
19 He reproves their hypocrisy, in enquiring of the Lord that which they mean not to follow.
1 Johanan, discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy, carries him and the rest into Egypt.
8 Jeremiah prophesies by a type the conquest of Egypt by the Babylonians.
1 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry.
11 He prophesies their destruction, who commit idolatry in Egypt.
15 The obstinacy of the Jews;
20 for which Jeremiah threatens them;
29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt.
1 Baruch being dismayed,
4 Jeremiah instructs and comforts him.
1 Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates,
13 and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar.
27 He comforts Jacob in his chastisement.
1 The destruction of the Philistines.
1 The judgment of Moab,
7 for their pride;
11 for their security;
14 for their carnal confidence;
26 and for their contempt of God and his people.
47 The restoration of Moab.
1 The judgment of the Ammonites.
6 Their restoration.
7 The judgment of Edom;
23 of Damascus;
28 of Kedar;
30 of Hazor;
34 and of Elam.
39 The restoration of Elam.
1 The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel.
1 The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel.
59 Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon.
1 Zedekiah rebels.
4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken.
8 Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out.
12 Nebuzar-adan burns and spoils the city.
24 He carries away the captives.
28 The number of Jews carried captive.
31 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin.
