Jeremiah #catechesis/bible/jeremiah
Old Testament · Major Prophets · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Jeremiah 1 — The time, and the calling, of Jeremiah: his prophetical visions. God encourages him.
- Jeremiah 2 — God expostulates with the Jews for their ingratitude and infidelity.
- Jeremiah 3 — God invites the rebel Jews to return to him, with a promise to receive them: he foretells the conversion of the Gentiles.
- Jeremiah 4 — And admonition to sincere repentance, and circumcision of the heart, with threats of grievous punishment to those that persist in sin.
- Jeremiah 5 — The judgments of God shall fall upon the Jews for their manifold sins.
- Jeremiah 6 — The evils that threaten Jerusalem. She is invited to return, and walk in the good way, and not to rely on sacrifices without obedience.
- Jeremiah 7 — The temple of God shall not protect a sinful people, without a sincere conversion. The Lord will not receive the prayers of the prophet for them: because they are obstinate in their sins.
- Jeremiah 8 — Other evils that shall fall upon the Jews for their impenitence.
- Jeremiah 9 — The prophet laments the miseries of his people: and their sins, which are the cause of them. He exhorts them to repentance.
- Jeremiah 10 — Neither stars nor idols are to be feared, but the great Creator of all things. The chastisement of Jerusalem for her sins.
- Jeremiah 11 — The prophet proclaims the covenant of God: and denounces evils to the obstinate transgressors of it. The conspiracy of the Jews against him, a figure of their conspiracy against Christ.
- Jeremiah 12 — The prosperity of the wicked shall be but for a short time. The desolation of the Jews for their sins. Their return from their captivity.
- Jeremiah 13 — Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the Jews. Their obstinacy in sin brings all miseries upon them.
- Jeremiah 14 — A grievous famine: and the prophet’s prayer on that occasion. Evils denounced to false prophets. The prophet mourns for his people.
- Jeremiah 15 — God is determined to punish the Jews for their sins. The prophet’s complaint, and God’s promise to him.
- Jeremiah 16 — The prophet is forbid to marry. The Jews shall be utterly ruined for their idolatry: but shall at length be released from their captivity, and the Gentiles shall be converted.
- Jeremiah 17 — For their obstinacy in sin the Jews shall be led captive. He is cursed that trusts in flesh. God alone searches the heart, giving to every one as he deserves. The prophet prays to be delivered from his enemies, and preaches up the observance of the sabbath.
- Jeremiah 18 — As the clay in the hand of the potter, so is Israel in God’s hand. He pardons penitents, and punishes the obstinate. They conspire against Jeremiah, for which he denounces to them the miseries that hang over them.
- Jeremiah 19 — Under the type of breaking a potter’s vessel, the prophet foreshows the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
- Jeremiah 20 — The prophet is persecuted: he denounces captivity to his persecutors, and bemoans himself.
- Jeremiah 21 — The prophet’s answer to the messengers of Sedecias, when Jerusalem was besieged.
- Jeremiah 22 — An exhortation both to king and people to return of God. The sentence of God upon Joachaz, Joakim, and Jechonias.
- Jeremiah 23 — God reproves evil governors; and promises to send good pastors; and Christ himself the prince of the pastors. He inveighs against false prophets preaching without being sent.
- Jeremiah 24 — Under the type of good and bad figs, he foretells the restoration of the Jews that had been carried away captive with Jechonias, and the desolation of those that were left behind.
- Jeremiah 25 — The prophet foretells the seventy years captivity; after that the destruction of Babylon, and other nations.
- Jeremiah 26 — The prophet is apprehended and accused by the priests: but discharged by the princes.
- Jeremiah 27 — The prophet sends chains to various kings, signifying that they must bend their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon. The vessels of the temple shall not be brought back till all the rest are carried away.
- Jeremiah 28 — The false prophecy of Hananias: he dies that same year, as Jeremiah foretold.
- Jeremiah 29 — Jeremiah writes to the captives in Babylon, exhorting them to be easy there, and not to hearken to false prophets. That they shall be delivered after seventy years. But those that remain in Jerusalem shall perish by the sword, famine, and pestilence. And that Achab, Sedecias, and Semeias, false prophets, shall die miserably.
- Jeremiah 30 — God will deliver his people from their captivity: Christ shall be their king: and his Church shall be glorious for ever.
- Jeremiah 31 — The restoration of Israel. Rachel shall cease from morning. The new covenant. The Church shall never fail.
- Jeremiah 32 — Jeremiah by God’s commandment purchases a field of his kinsman: and prophesies the return of the people out of captivity: and the everlasting covenant God will make with his Church.
- Jeremiah 33 — God promises reduction from captivity, and other blessings: especially the coming of Christ, whose reign in his Church shall be glorious and perpetual.
- Jeremiah 34 — The prophet foretells that Sedecias shall fall into the hands of Nebuchadnezzer: God’s sentence upon the princes and people that had broken his covenant.
- Jeremiah 35 — The obedience of the Rechabites condemns the disobedience of the Jews. The reward of the Rechabites.
- Jeremiah 36 — Jeremiah sends Baruch to read his prophecies in the temple; the book is brought to King Joakim, who burns it. The prophet denounces his judgment, and causes Baruch to write a new copy.
- Jeremiah 37 — Jeremiah prophesies that the Chaldeans, who had departed from Jerusalem, would return and burn the city. He is cast into prison. His conference with Sedecias.
- Jeremiah 38 — The prophet at the instance of the great men is cast into a filthy dungeon: he is drawn out by Abdemelech, and has another conference with the king.
- Jeremiah 39 — After two years’ siege Jerusalem is taken. Sedecias is carried before Nebuchadnezzer, who kills his sons in his sight, and then puts out his eyes. Jeremiah is set at liberty.
- Jeremiah 40 — Jeremiah remains with Godolias the governor; who receives all the Jews that resort to him.
- Jeremiah 41 — Godolias is slain: the Jews that were with him are apprehensive of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 42 — Jeremiah assures the remnant of the people, that if they will stay in Judah, they shall be safe; but if they go down into Egypt, they shall perish.
- Jeremiah 43 — The Jews, contrary to the orders of God by the prophet, go into Egypt, carrying Jeremiah with them. He foretells the devastation of that land by the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 44 — The prophet’s admonition to the Jews in Egypt against idolatry is not regarded: he denounces to them their destruction.
- Jeremiah 45 — The prophet comforts Baruch in his affliction.
- Jeremiah 46 — A prophecy against Egypt. The Jews shall return from captivity.
- Jeremiah 47 — A prophecy of the desolation of the Philistines, of Tyre, Sidon, Gaza, and Ascalon.
- Jeremiah 48 — A prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their pride: but their captivity shall at last be released.
- Jeremiah 49 — The like desolation of Ammon, of Idumea, of the Syrians, of the Agarenes, and of the Elamites.
- Jeremiah 50 — Babylon, which has afflicted the Israelites, after their restoration, shall be utterly destroyed.
- Jeremiah 51 — The miseries that shall fall upon Babylon from the Medes: the destruction of her idols.
- Jeremiah 52 — A recapitulation of the reign of Sedecias, and the destruction of Jerusalem. The number of the captives.
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