Jerusalem’s Defeat Is Predicted 1 King Zedekiah of Judah sent to me Pashhur son of Malchiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah with this request: 2 “Please speak to…

Jeremiah’s Message to the Royal House of Judah 1-2 The Lord told me to go to the palace of the king of Judah, the descendant of David, and there tell…

Hope for the Future 1 How terrible will be the Lord’s judgment on those rulers who destroy and scatter his people! 2 This is what the Lord, the God of…

Two Baskets of Figs 1 The Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the Temple. (This was after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia had taken away Jehoiakim’s…

The Enemy from the North 1 In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was king of Judah, I received a message from the Lord concerning all the people…

Jeremiah Is Brought to Trial 1 Soon after Jehoiakim son of Josiah became king of Judah, 2 the Lord said to me, “Stand in the court of the Temple and…

Jeremiah Wears an Ox Yoke 1 Soon after Josiah’s son Zedekiah became king of Judah, the Lord told me 2 to make myself a yoke out of leather straps and…

Jeremiah and the Prophet Hananiah 1 That same year,in the fifth month of the fourth year that Zedekiah was king, Hananiah son of Azzur, a prophet from the town of…

Jeremiah’s Letter to the Jews in Babylonia 1 I wrote a letter to the priests, the prophets, the leaders of the people, and to all the others whom Nebuchadnezzar had…

The Lord’s Promises to His People 1 The Lord, the God of Israel, 2 said to me, “Write down in a book everything that I have told you, 3 because…