Jeremiah
52 chapters, 1364 verses. The 24th of 66 books, in The Major Prophets.
How it begins
1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
2To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Chapters
- 1Jeremiah ordained a prophet
- 2Israel forsakes God for idols
- 3Backsliding Israel and Judah
- 4Return to the Lord
- 5The search for the righteous
- 6The old paths rejected
- 7The temple's false security
- 8The bones and the judgment
- 9Weeping for a deceitful people
- 10The Lord alone is God
- 11The broken covenant
- 12Heritage become a beast
- 13The marred linen girdle
- 14The word concerning the dearth
- 15The scattered to all kingdoms
- 16The prophet's lonely way
- 17Cursed and blessed
- 18The potter's hand
- 19The potter's bottle broken
- 20The terror on every side
- 21The way of life, way of death
- 22The house become a wilderness
- 23False prophets and righteous branch
- 24Vision of the two baskets of figs
- 25Seventy years of servitude
- 26Jeremiah threatened with death
- 27The yoke of Babylon
- 28Hananiah's false prophecy
- 29A letter to the captives
- 30Restoration of Jacob
- 31A new covenant
- 32The field of Anathoth
- 33Promise of healing and restoration
- 34Zedekiah's fate and broken promises
- 35The faithfulness of the Rechabites
- 36The burning of the scroll
- 37Jeremiah imprisoned and questioned
- 38Jeremiah rescued and questioned
- 39The fall of Jerusalem
- 40Jeremiah released and Gedaliah appointed
- 41Ishmael's treachery at Mizpah
- 42The people seek God's counsel
- 43Rebellion and flight to Egypt
- 44Warning against idolatry in Egypt
- 45Promise to Baruch
- 46Judgment against Egypt
- 47Destruction of the Philistines
- 48Moab's lamentation and fall
- 49Judgment on the nations round about
- 50Fall of Babylon and restoration of Israel
- 51Babylon's destruction and Israel's vindication
- 52Fall of Jerusalem and Jehoiachin's release
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.