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001 The Call of Jeremiah
002 Israel Forsakes the Lord
003 Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
004 Disaster from the North
005 Jerusalem Refused to Repent
006 Impending Disaster for Jerusalem
007 Evil in the Land
008 Sin and Treachery
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010 Idols and the Living God
011 The Broken Covenant
012 Jeremiah's Complaint
013 The Ruined Loincloth
014 Famine, Sword, and Pestilence
015 The Lord Will Not Relent
016 Famine, Sword, and Death
017 The Sin of Judah
018 The Potter and the Clay
019 The Broken Flask
020 Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur
021 Jerusalem Will Fall to Nebuchadnezzar
022 Message to the Sons of Josiah
023 The Righteous Branch
024 The Good Figs and the Bad Figs
025 Seventy Years of Captivity
026 Jeremiah Threatened with Death
027 The Yoke of Nebuchadnezzar
028 Hananiah the False Prophet
029 Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles
030 Restoration for Israel and Judah
031 The Lord Will Turn Mourning to Joy
032 Jeremiah Buys a Field During the Siege
033 The Lord Promises Peace
034 Zedekiah to Die in Babylon
035 The Obedience of the Rechabites
036 Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah's Scroll
037 Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah
038 Jeremiah Cast into the Cistern
039 The Fall of Jerusalem
040 Jeremiah Remains in Judah
041 Gedaliah Murdered
042 Warning Against Going to Egypt
043 Jeremiah Taken to Egypt
044 Judgment for Idolatry
045 Message to Baruch
046 Judgment on Egypt
047 Judgment on the Philistines
048 Judgment on Moab
049 Judgment on Ammon
050 Judgment on Babylon
051 The Utter Destruction of Babylon
052 The Fall of Jerusalem Recounted
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Jeremiah 22:15-16
15
Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and do justice and righteousness?
Then it was well with him.
16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well.
Is not this to know me?
declares the
Lord
.
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