LaQuey Family

The Fall of Jerusalem

Jeremiah is thrown into a cistern, the Babylonians invade, Jeremiah is freed, Israel cries out to God

The Recabite family is made an example, Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll, Jeremiah is placed in prison

Jeremiah told to buy a field, given a promise of restoration, a warning to Zedekiah, freedom for the slaves.

He who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar - the LORD Almighty is his name. “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the LORD, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.”

“When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

Jeremiah threatened with death, prophecy against Judah

This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says…

Jeremiah shares lessons at the Potter’s House, disparages of his life, prophesies against evil kings

But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you be unclean?

“Let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the LORD.

Your own conduct and actions have brought this upon you. This is your punishment.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

Be silent before the sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish… Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger. On that day they will say to Jerusalem, “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands hang limp. The LORD your God is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he...

Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did - with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.

The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished….The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him, but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into darkness.

And when he prayed to him, the LORD was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their foes, because they have done evil in my eyes and have provoked me to anger…

Behold, I will create a new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create…

I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God.

If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your fat...

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Hezekiah reacts to the threats from the king of Assyria, God hears the prayers of His people, God alone is worthy of our praise!

“I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me… I am the first and the last. My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens…”