Book of Jeremiah Themes

Man, who isn't getting abandoned in this book? The people abandon God, God abandons his people, Jeremiah accuses God of abandoning him. This book is really heavy on abandonment issues.But at the sa...

Betrayal is almost as pervasive a theme as abandonment. But whereas abandonment goes both ways—people abandon God, provoking God to abandon his people—betrayal is much more of a one-way street....

Since Jeremiah spends so much time warning about God's wrath, the parts that focus on compassion and forgiveness come as a surprise and a relief. Although God acts like he's condemning Judah perman...

The people who demonstrate courage the most often in The Book of Jeremiah are Jeremiah himself and the people who help him—particularly, Baruch and Ebed-melech. Ebed-melech speaks up in support o...

This is what the book's about. God judges the people as disobedient and wicked, and hands out just punishments. As bad as Jeremiah feels about God's inflicting these terrible punishments, he knows...

Everyone ends up suffering in Jeremiah. After the Babylonians invade, all of Judah is in convulsions. People either die horrible deaths or get sent into exile. The city of Jerusalem is rubble. The...