Jeremiah and Lamentations

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Jeremiah and Lamentations
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Chronology
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Chronology

• Babylonian captivity 586 BC
• Daniel
• Persian conquer of Babylon 539 BC
• Edict of Cyrus for Jews to return 538 BC
• Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah
• Nehemiah
• Walls of Jerusalem restored 445 BC
• Malachi
• Greek rule 333 BC
• Romans take Jerusalem 63 BC
• Palestine ruled by puppet kings
• Herod the great 37 BC 4 BC

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• In the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah
  was king of Judah, the LORD said to me, Get a
  scroll and write on it everything that I have
  told you about Israel and Judah and all the
  nations. Write everything that I have told you
  from the time I first spoke to you, when Josiah
  was king, up to the present. (Jeremiah 361-2
  GN)

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• Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He
  took it from the room of Elishama and read it to
  the king and all the officials who were standing
  around him. It was winter and the king was
  sitting in his winter palace in front of the
  fire. As soon as Jehudi finished reading three or
  four columns, the king cut them off with a small
  knife and threw them into the fire. He kept doing
  this until the entire scroll was burned up. But
  neither the king nor any of his officials who
  heard all this was afraid or showed any sign of
  sorrow. (Jeremiah 3621-24 GN)

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• LORD, you understand. Remember me and help me.
  Let me have revenge on those who persecute me. Do
  not be so patient with them that they succeed in
  killing me. (Jeremiah 1515 GN)

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• Then the people said, Lets do something about
  Jeremiah! There will always be priests to
  instruct us, the wise to give us counsel, and
  prophets to proclaim Gods message. Lets bring
  charges against him and stop listening to what he
  says. So I prayed, LORD, hear what I am saying
  and listen to what my enemies are saying about
  me. Is evil the payment for good? Yet they have
  dug a pit for me to fall in. Remember how I came
  to you and spoke on their behalf, so that you
  would not deal with them in anger. (Jeremiah
  1818-20 GN)

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• Curse the day I was born! Forget the day my
  mother gave me birth! Curse the one who made my
  father glad by bringing him the news, Its a
  boy! You have a son! May he be like those cities
  that the LORD destroyed without mercy. May he
  hear cries of pain in the morning and the battle
  alarm at noon, for not killing me before I was
  born. Then my mothers womb would have been my
  grave. Why was I born? Was it only to have
  trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?
  (Jeremiah 2014-18 GN)

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• Soon after Josiah's son Zedekiah became king of
  Judah, the LORD told me to make myself a yoke out
  of leather straps and wooden crossbars and to put
  it on my neck. (Jeremiah 271-2 GN)

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• They were furious with me and had me beaten and
  locked up in the house of Jonathan, the court
  secretary, whose house had been made into a
  prison. I was put in an underground cell and kept
  there a long time. (Jeremiah 3715-16 GN)
• So they took me and let me down by ropes into
  Prince Malchiahs well, which was in the palace
  courtyard. There was no water in the well, only
  mud, and I sank down in it. (Jeremiah 386 GN)

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• What accusation did your ancestors brings
  against me? What made them turn away from me?
  They worshiped worthless idols and became
  worthless themselves. They did not care about
  meThe priests did not ask, Where is the LORD?
  My own priests did not know me. (Jeremiah
  25,6,8 GN)

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• My people are stupid they dont know me. They
  are like foolish children they have no
  understanding. (Jeremiah 422 GN)
• The LORD says, The wise should not boast of
  their wisdom, nor the strong of their strength,
  nor the rich of their wealth. If any want to
  boast, they should boast that they know and
  understand me, because my love is constant, and I
  do what is just and right. (Jeremiah 923-24
  GN)
• My people are being destroyed because they dont
  know me. (Hosea 46 NLT)
• This is eternal life to know you, the only true
  God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. (John 173
  GODS WORD)

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• The LORD says, The time is coming when I will
  make a new covenant with the people of Israel and
  with the people of Judah. It will not be like the
  old covenant that I made with their ancestors
  when I took them by the hand and led them out of
  Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them,
  they did not keep that covenant. The new covenant
  that I will make with the people of Israel will
  be this I will put my law within them and write
  it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they
  will be my people. None of them will have to
  teach a neighbor to know the LORD, because all
  will know me, from the least to the greatest.
  (Jeremiah 3131-34 GN)

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• The prophets are telling lies in my name I did
  not send them, nor did I give them any orders or
  speak one word to them. The visions they talk
  about have not come from me their predictions
  are worthless things that they have
  imaginedProphets and priests carry on their
  work, but they dont know what they are doing.
• (Jeremiah 1414-15,18 GN)

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• The LORD says, The people I love are doing evil
  things. (Jeremiah 1115 GN)
• The LORD says, I have abandoned Israel I have
  rejected my chosen nation. I have given the
  people I love into the power of their enemies.
  (Jeremiah 127 GN)

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• I will punish my people because they have
  sinned they have abandoned me, have offered
  sacrifices to other gods, and have made idols and
  worshiped them. (Jeremiah 116 GN)

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• You have brought this on yourself by abandoning
  the LORD your God when he led you on his way
  Your own wickedness will correct you, and your
  unfaithful ways will punish you. You should know
  and see how evil and bitter it is for you if you
  abandon the LORD your God... (Jeremiah 217-19
  GN)

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• I punished you, but it did no good you would
  not let me correct you. Like a raging lion, you
  have murdered your prophets. (Jeremiah 230
  GN)
• Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the
  way you have lived and by the things you have
  done. Your sin has caused this suffering it has
  stabbed you through the heart. (Jeremiah 418
  GN)

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• I will fight against you with all my might, my
  anger, my wrath, and my fury. I will kill
  everyone living in this city people and animals
  alike will die of a terrible disease. Anyone who
  stays in the city will be killed in war or by
  starvation or disease. But those who go out and
  surrender to the Babylonians, who are now
  attacking the city, will not be killed they will
  at least escape with their life. I have made up
  my mind not to spare this city, but to destroy
  it. It will be given over to the king of
  Babylonia, and he will burn it to the ground. I,
  the LORD, have spoken. (Jeremiah 215,6,9-10
  GN)

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• Listen to what I, the LORD, am saying. See that
  justice is done every day. Protect the person who
  is being cheated from the one who is cheating
  him. If you dont, the evil you are doing will
  make my anger burn like a fire that cannot be put
  out. You, Jerusalem, are sitting high above the
  valleys, like a rock rising above the plain. But
  I will fight against you. You say that no one can
  attack you or break through your defenses. But I
  will punish you for what you have done. I will
  set your palace on fire, and the fire will burn
  down everything around it. I, the LORD, have
  spoken. (Jeremiah 2111-14 GN)

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• I am going to give this city over to King
  Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army they
  will capture it and set it on fire. They will
  burn it down, together with the houses where
  people have made me angry by burning incense to
  Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out wine
  offerings to other gods. (Jeremiah 3228-29)

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• The LORD, the God of Israel, told me to go and
  say to King Zedekiah of Judah, I, the LORD, will
  hand this city over to the king of Babylonia, and
  he will burn it down. (Jeremiah 342 GN)
• So now, I, the LORD, say that you have disobeyed
  me you have not given all Israelites their
  freedom. Very well, then, I will give you
  freedom the freedom to die by war, disease, and
  starvation. I will make every nation in the world
  horrified at what I do to you. (Jeremiah 3417
  GN)

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• The LORD has abandoned his people like a lion
  that leaves its cave. The horrors of war and the
  LORD's fierce anger have turned the country into
  a desert. (Jeremiah 2538 GN)

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• Gods anger is revealed from heaven against all
  the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways
  prevent the truth from being known. God punishes
  them, because what can be known about God is
  plain to them, for God himself made it plain
  (Romans 118,19 GN).
• They say they are wise, but they are
  fools instead of worshiping the immortal God,
  they worship images made to look like mortals or
  birds or animals or reptiles. And so God has
  given those people over to do the filthy things
  their hearts desire, and they do shameful things
  with each other. They exchange the truth about
  God for a lie they worship and serve what God
  has created instead of the Creator himself, who
  is to be praised forever! Amen. Because they do
  this, God has given them over to shameful
  passions.Because those people refuse to keep in
  mind the true knowledge about God, he has given
  them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the
  things that they should not do (Romans
  122-26,28 GN).

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• Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned down the royal
  palace and the houses of the people and tore down
  the walls of Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 398 GN)

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• But King Nebuchadnezzar commanded Nebuzaradan,
  the commanding officer, to give the following
  order Go and find Jeremiah and take good care
  of him. Do not harm him, but do for him whatever
  he wants. (Jeremiah 3911-12 GN)

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• The commanding officer took me aside and said,
  The LORD your God threatened this land with
  destruction, and now he has done what he said he
  would. All this happened because your people
  sinned against the LORD and disobeyed him. Now, I
  am taking the chains off your wrists and setting
  you free. If you want to go to Babylonia with me,
  you may do so, and I will take care of you. But
  if you dont want to go, you dont have to. You
  have the whole country to choose from, and you
  may go wherever you wish. (Jeremiah 402-4
  GN)

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• I went to stay with Gedaliah in Mizpah and lived
  among the people who were left in the land.
  (Jeremiah 406 GN)
• Then all the army leaderscame with people of
  every class and said to me, Please do what we
  ask you! Pray to the LORD our God for us. Pray
  for all of us who have survived. Once there were
  many of us but now only a few of us are left, as
  you can see. Pray that the LORD our God will show
  us the way we should go and what we should do. I
  answered, Very well, then. I will pray to the
  LORD our God, just as you have asked, and
  whatever he says, I will tell you. I will not
  keep back anything from you. Then they said to
  me, May the LORD be a true and faithful witness
  against us if we do not obey all the commands
  that the LORD our God gives you for us. Whether
  it pleases us or not, we will obey the LORD our
  God, to whom we are asking you to pray. All will
  go well with us if we obey him. (Jeremiah
  421-6 GN)

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• Ten days later the LORD spoke to me so I called
  together Johanan, all the army leaders who were
  with him, and all the other people. I said to
  them, The LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you
  sent me with your request has said, 'If you are
  willing to go on living in this land, then I will
  build you up and not tear you down I will plant
  you and not pull you up. The destruction I
  brought on you has caused me great sorrow. Stop
  being afraid of the king of Babylonia. I am with
  you, and I will rescue you from his power.
  Because I am merciful, I will make him have mercy
  on you and let you go back home. I, the LORD,
  have spoken. (Jeremiah 427-12 GN)

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• The LORD, the God of Israel, says, Just as my
  anger and fury were poured out on the people of
  Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you
  if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying
  sight people will make fun of you and use your
  name as a curse. You will never see this place
  again. (Jeremiah 4218 GN)

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• Then Azariahand Johananand all the other
  arrogant men said to me, You are lying. The LORD
  our God did not send you to tell us not to go and
  live in Egypt. Baruchhas stirred you up against
  us, so that the Babylonians will gain power over
  us and can either kill us or take us away to
  Babylonia. (Jeremiah 432-3 GN)

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• Then Johanan and all the army officers took
  everybody left in Judah away to Egypt, together
  with all the people who had returned from the
  nations where they had been scattered the men,
  the women, the children, and the king's
  daughters. They took everyone whom Nebuzaradan
  the commanding officer had left under the care of
  Gedaliah, including Baruch and me. They disobeyed
  the LORDs command and went into Egypt as far as
  the city of Tahpanhes. (Jeremiah 435-7 GN)

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• The LORD spoke to me concerning all the
  Israelites living in EgyptThe LORD Almighty, the
  God of Israel, said, You yourselves have seen
  the destruction I brought on Jerusalem and all
  the other cities of Judah. Even now they are
  still in ruins, and no one lives in them because
  their people had done evil and had made me angry.
  They offered sacrifices to other gods and served
  gods that neither they nor you nor your ancestors
  ever worshiped. I kept sending you my servants
  the prophets, who told you not to do this
  terrible thing that I hate. But you would not
  listen or pay any attention. You would not give
  up your evil practice of sacrificing to other
  gods. So I poured out my anger and fury on the
  towns of Judah and on the streets of Jerusalem,
  and I set them on fire. They were left in ruins
  and became a horrifying sight, as they are today.
  And so I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel,
  now ask why you are doing such an evil thing to
  yourselves. Do you want to bring destruction on
  men and women, children and babies, so that none
  of your people will be left? Why do you make me
  angry by worshiping idols and by sacrificing to
  other gods here in Egypt, where you have come to
  live? Are you doing this just to destroy
  yourselves, so that every nation on earth will
  make fun of you and use your name as a curse?
  (Jeremiah 441-8 GN)

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• Then all the men who knew that their wives
  offered sacrifices to other gods, and all the
  women who were standing there, including the
  Israelites who lived in southern Egypt---a large
  crowd in all---said to me, We refuse to listen
  to what you have told us in the name of the LORD.
  We will do everything that we said we would. We
  will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen
  of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to
  her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and
  our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and
  in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty
  of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.
  But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the
  Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine
  offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our
  people have died in war and of starvation.
  (Jeremiah 4415-18 GN)