Book 24 of 39 in the Old Testament — Warning & the new covenant.
Jeremiah, often called the ‘weeping prophet,’ ministered during Judah's final decades before Babylon's conquest, pleading with a people unwilling to listen. He faced persistent rejection, imprisonment, and personal anguish as he warned that Jerusalem's fall was both certain and deserved. Yet his message wasn't only judgment — he also promised a future ‘new covenant’ in which God's law would be written on people's hearts rather than external stone. Jeremiah's ministry models costly faithfulness to an unpopular message.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”King James Version
God tells Jeremiah he knew and set him apart before he was even born.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”King James Version
The human heart is described as deceitful above all things.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”King James Version
God's plans for his people are for welfare and hope, not calamity.
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”King James Version
God promises a new covenant, writing his law on people's hearts.
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”King James Version
God invites Jeremiah to call to him and be shown great and hidden things.