JEREMIAH





Chapter 1


	The time (1:1-3)
	And the calling of Jeremiah (1:4-10)
	His prophetical visions of an almond rod, and a boiling pot 
		(1:11-14)
	God's serious judgment against Judah (1:15-16)
	God encourages Jeremiah with a promise of assistance (1:17-19)




Chapter 2


	God reasons earnestly with the Jews about their revolt (2:1-8)
	Declaring it to be without precedent (2:9-13)
	They are the cause of their own calamities (2:14-19)
	The sins of Judah (2:20-30)
	God rejects those whom Judah trusts (2:31-37)




Chapter 3


	Because of Judah's vileness, rain has been withheld (3:1-5)
	Judah ignores Israel's example (3:6-10)
	Judah is called from backsliding (3:11-19)
	Israel is reproved and makes a solemn confession of sins 
		(3:20-25)




Chapter 4


	God calls Israel by His promise (4:1-2)
	He exhorts Judah to repentance by fearful judgments (4:3-18)
	A lament for the miseries of Judah (4:19-31)




Chapter 5


	The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness (5:1-6)
	For their adultery and impiety (5:7-18)
	For their contempt of God (5:19-24)
	And for their great corruption in the civil state (5:25-29)
	And ecclesiastical life (5:30-31)




Chapter 6


	The enemies, sent against Judah (6:1-3)
	Are encouraged (6:4-5)
	God sets them against Jerusalem because of its sins (6:6-7)
	The prophet laments the judgments of God (6:8-17)
	He proclaims God's wrath (6:18-25)
	He calls the people to mourn (6:26-30)




Chapter 7


	Jeremiah is sent to call for true repentance, to prevent the Jews 
		captivity (7:1-7)
	He rejects their vain confidence (7:8-11)
	By the example of Shiloh (7:12-16)
	He threatens them for their idolatry (7:17-20)
	He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient (7:21-28)
	He exhorts them to mourning for their abominations in Tophet 
		(7:29-31)
	And foretells their judgment (7:32-34)




Chapter 8


	The calamity visited upon the Jews, both dead and alive (8:1-3)
	He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitence (8:4-12)
	He foretells their grievous judgment (8:13-17)
	And bewails their desperate state (8:18-22)




Chapter 9


	Jeremiah laments the Jews' many sins, and the judgment upon 
		them (9:1-11)
	Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity (9:12-16)
	He exhorts them to mourn their own destruction. (9:17-22)
	And to trust, not in themselves, but in God (9:23-24)
	He threatens both Jews and Gentiles (9:25-26)




Chapter 10


	Idols are compared with God (10:1-16)
	The prophet exhorts the people to flee from the calamity to 
		come (10:17-18)
	He laments the loss of the tabernacle, due to foolish pastors 
		(10:19-22)
	He makes humble supplication (10:23-25)




Chapter 11


	Jeremiah proclaims God's covenant (11:1-7)
	Rebukes the Jews for disobeying it (11:8-10)
	Prophesies evils to come upon them (11:11-17)
	And upon the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill Jeremiah 
		(11:18-23)




Chapter 12


	Jeremiah complains of the prosperity of the wicked and foresees 
		their ruin (12:1-4)
	God warns him of his brethren's treachery (12:5-6)
	Jeremiah laments the loss of his heritage (12:7-13)
	God promises the penitent they will return from captivity (12:14-17)




Chapter 13


	In the figure of a linen girdle, hidden at Euprates, God foreshows 
		the destruction of His people (13:1-11)
	Under the parable of the bottles filled with wine, he foretells their 
		drunken misery (13:12-14)
	He exhorts them to avoid future judgment (13:15-21)
	He shows that their abominations are the cause of judgment 
		(13:22-27)




Chapter 14


	The grievous famine (14:1-6)
	Causes Jeremiah to pray (14:7-9)
	The Lord will not hear the pleas of the people (14:10-12)
	Lying prophets are no excuse for them (14:13-16)
	Jeremiah voices their complaint (14:17-22)




Chapter 15


	The complete rejection of the Jews, and their many judgments 
		(15:1-2)
	Four kinds of destroyers (15:3-9)
	Jeremiah speaks of men's spitefulness (15:10-12)
	God's threatening reply (15:13-14)
	Jeremiah prays (15:15-18)
	And receives a gracious promise (15:19-21)




Chapter 16


	Jeremiah is not to marry (16:1-4)
	The prophet, by figures, foreshows the ruin of the Jews (16:5-9)
	Because they are worse than their fathers (16:10-13)
	Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance 
		out of Egypt (16:14-15)
	God will punish them doubly for their idolatry (16:16-21)




Chapter 17


	The captivity of Judah (17:1-4)
	Trust in man is cursed (17:5-6)
	In God is blessed (17:7-8)
	The deceitful heart cannot deceive God (17:9-11)
	Hope and salvation are to be found in Him (17:12-14)
	The prophet speaks of those who mock his prophecy (17:15-18)
	He is sent to renew the covenant to hallow the sabbath (17:19-27)




Chapter 18


	The figure of a potter shows God's absolute power over nations 
		(18:1-10)
	Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt (18:11-17)
	Jeremiah prays (18:18-23)




Chapter 19


	The desolation of the Jews is told in figure of a potter's vessel 
		(19:1-15)




Chapter 20


	Jeremiah is persecuted by Pashur, who receives a new name 
		and a fearful doom (20:1-6)
	Jeremiah speaks of contempt (20:7-9)
	Of treachery (20:10-13)
	And of his birth (20:14-18)




Chapter 21


	Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to inquire about the war of 
		Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar) (21:1-2)
	Jeremiah foretells a hard siege and miserable captivity (21:3-7)
	He counsels the people to surrender to the Chaldeans (21:8-10)
	And upbraids the king's house (21:11-14)




Chapter 22


	He exhorts the royal family to repent (22:1-9)
	The judgment of Shallum (22:10-12)
	Of Jehoiakim (22:13-19)
	And of Coniah (Jehoiachin) (22:20-30)




Chapter 23


	He prophesies the restoration of the scattered flock (23:1-4)
	Christ shall rule and save them (23:5-8)
	Against false prophets (23:9-32)
	And mockers of the true prophets (23:33-40)




Chapter 24


	By the figure of good and bad figs (24:1-3)
	He foretells the restoration of those who were in captivity (24:4-7)
	And the desolation of Zedekiah and the rest (24:8-10)




Chapter 25


	Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets (25:1-7)
	Foretells the seventy years' captivity (25:8-11)
	And after that, the destruction of Babylon (25:12-14)
	By the figure of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all 
		the nations (25:15-33)
	The howling of the shepherds (25:34-38)




Chapter 26


	Jeremiah exhorts the cities of Judah to repent (26:1-7)
	He is therefore apprehended (26:8-9)
	And arraigned (26:10-11)
	His defense (26:12-15)
	He is acquitted, the judges citing the cases of Micah (26:16-19)
	And of Urijah (26:20-23)
	He has the help of Ahikam (26:24)




Chapter 27


	Jeremiah prophesies Nebuchadnezzar's subjugation of neighbor 
		kings (27:1-7)
	He exhorts the nations to yield and not to believe the false 
		prophets (27:8-11)
	He likewise urges Zedekiah (27:12-18)
	He foretells that the remaining temple vessels shall be carried to 
		Babylon (27:19-22)




Chapter 28


	Hananiah prophesies falsely the return of the vessels and of 
		Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) (28:1-4)
	Jeremiah shows that the event itself will declare who are true 
		prophets (28:5-9)
	Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke (28:10-11)
	Jeremiah tells of an iron yoke (28:12-14)
	And foretells Hananiah's death (28:15-17)



Chapter 29

	Jeremiah sends a letter to the 
		captives in Babylon, telling them to be quiet there (29:1-7)
	Not to believe the dreams of their prophets (29:8-9)
	And that they shall return with grace, after seventy years 
		(29:10-14)
	He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience 
		(29:15-19)
	He shows the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah, two lying prophets 
		(29:20-23)
	Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah (29:24-29)
	Jeremiah reads Shemaiah's doom (29:30-32)




Chapter 30


	God shows Jeremiah the return of the Jews (30:1-3)
	After their trouble, they shall be delivered (30:4-9)
	He comforts them (30:10-17)
	Jerusalem will be rebuilt (30:18-19)
	Wrath shall fall on the wicked (30:20-24)




Chapter 31


	The restoration of Israel (31:1-9)
	The proclamation of this happy event (31:10-14)
	Rahel (Rachel), mourning, is comforted (31:15-17)
	Ephraim, repenting, is brought home again (31:18-21)
	Christ is promised (31:22-26)
	His care over the church (31:27-30)
	His new covenant (31:31-34)
	The stability (31:35-37)
	And vast extent of the church (31:38-40)




Chapter 32


	Jeremiah, imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophecy (32:1-5)
	Buys Hanameel's field (32:6-12)
	Baruch must preserve the deeds, as tokens of the people's 
		return (32:13-15)
	Jeremiah's prayer To God (32:16-25)
	God warns of the captivity for their sins (32:26-35)
	But promises restoration (32:36-44)




Chapter 33


	God promises to end the captivity (33:1-8)
	With a joyful state (33:9-11)
	A settled government (33:12-14)
	Christ, the Branch of righteousness (33:15-16)
	A continuance of the kingdom and priesthood (33:17-18)
	And the stability of a blessed seed (33:19-26)




Chapter 34


	Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah, and the city 
		(34:1-7)
	The princes and the people free their bondservants, but violate 
		God's covenant by enslaving them again (34:8-11)
	For their disobedience, they are given to their enemies (34:12-22)




Chapter 35


	By the obedience of the Rechabites (35:1-11)
	Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews (35:12-15)
	And praises the Rechabites (35:16-17)
	God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience (35:18-19)




Chapter 36


	Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophecy (36:1-4)
	And to read it publicly (36:5-10)
	The princes are told about it by Michaiah, and send Jehudi to 
		bring the roll and read it (36:11-19)
	King Jehoiakim is told about the roll, hears part of it, and burns 
		it (36:20-26)
	Jeremiah pronounces his judgment (36:27-31)
	Baruch writes a new copy (36:32)




Chapter 37


	The Egyptians raise the siege of the Chaldeans and Zedekiah 
		asks Jeremiah to pray for the people (37:1-5)
	Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory 
		(37:6-10)
	He is taken for a traitor, beaten, and put in prison (37:11-15)
	He assures Zedekiah of the captivity (37:16-17)
	Jeremiah pleads for his freedom (37:18-21)




Chapter 38


	He is put in the dungeon of Malchiah (38:1-6)
	Ebed-melech appeals to the king and gets him some freedom 
		(38:7-13)
	In secret conference, he counsels the king to save his life by 
		surrender (38:14-23)
	By the king's instructions, he conceals the conference from the 
		princes (38:24-28)




Chapter 39


	Jerusalem is taken (39:1-3)
	Zedekiah is made blind, and sent to Babylon (39:4-7)
	The city is ruined (39:8)
	And the people made captive (39:9-10)
	Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar) commands good treatment 
		for Jeremiah (39:11-14)
	God's promise to Ebed-melech (39:15-18)




Chapter 40


	Jeremiah, freed by Nebuzar-adan, goes to Gedaliah (40:1-6)
	The dispersed Jews rally around Gedaliah (40:7-12)
	Johanan reveals Ishmael's conspiracy, but is not believed 
		(40:13-16)




Chapter 41


	Ishamel slays Gedaliah, then plans to flee with those remaining 
		to the Ammonites (41:1-10)
	Johanan recovers the captives, and plans to flee into Egypt 
		(41:11-18)




Chapter 42


	Johanan asks Jeremiah to inquire of God, and promises 
		obedience to His will (42:1-6)
	Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea, and destruction in 
		Egypt (42:7-18)
	He reproves their hypocrisy in inquiring of the Lord, without 	
		intending to obey (42:19-22)




Chapter 43


	Johanan, discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy, carries Jeremiah and 
		others into Egypt (43:1-7)
	Jeremiah prophesies the conquest of Egypt by Babylon (43:8-13)




Chapter 44


	Jeremiah recalls the desolation of Judah (44:1-10)
	He prophesies the destruction of those who commit idolatry in 
		Egypt (44:11-14)
	The obstinacy of the Jews (44:15-19)
	Jeremiah threatens them for it (44:20-28)
	He prophesies the destruction of Egypt (44:29-30)




Chapter 45


	Baruch is dismayed (45:1-3)
	So Jeremiah instructs and comforts him (45:4-5)




Chapter 46


	Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates 
		(46:1-12)
	And the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar (Nebuchadnezzar) (46:13-26)
	He comforts the Jews in their chastisement (46:27-28)




Chapter 47


	The destruction of the Philistines (47:1-7)




Chapter 48


	The judgment of Moab (48:1-6)
	For their pride (48:7-10)
	For their vanity (48:11-13)
	For their boasting (48:14-25)
	And for their contempt of God and His people (48:26-46)
	The restoration of Moab (48:47)




Chapter 49


	The judgment of the Ammonites (49:1-5)
	Their restoration (49:6)
	The judgment of Edom (49:7-22)
	Of Damascus (49:23-27)
	Of Kedar (49:28-29)
	Of Hazor (49:30-33)
	And of Elam (49:34-38)
	The restoration of Elam (49:39)




Chapter 50


	Babylon's defeat (50:1-20)
	Babylon's desolation (50:21-46)




Chapter 51


	The severe judgment of God on Babylon (51:1-13)
	To avenge Israel (51:14-58)
	The book of this prophecy cast into Euphrates is a token of the 
		perpetual sinking of Babylon (51:59-64)




Chapter 52


	Zedekiah rebels (52:1-3)
	Jerusalem is besieged and taken (52:4-7)
	Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out (52:8-11)
	Nebuzar-adan burns and spoils the city (52:12-23)
	He carries away the captives (52:24-30)
	Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin (52:31-34)


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LAMENTATIONS





Chapter 1


	The miserable state of Jerusalem because of her sin (1:1-11)
	She complains of her grief (1:12-17)
	And confesses God's judgment to be righteous (1:18-22)




Chapter 2


	Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem (2:1-19)
	He speaks of it to God (2:20-22)




Chapter 3


	The faithful bewail their calamities (3:1-21)
	By the mercies of God they nourish their hope (3:22-36)
	They acknowledge God's justice (3:37-54)
	They pray for deliverance (3:55-63)
	And vengeance on their enemies (3:64-66)




Chapter 4


	Zion bewails her pitiful state (4:1-12)
	She confesses her sins (4:13-20)
	Edom is threatened (4:21)
	Zion is comforted (4:22)




Chapter 5


	The review of the need for restoration (5:1-15)
	The repentance of sin (5:16-18)
	The request for restoration (5:19-22)

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