Jeremiah

Jeremiah, 'the weeping prophet', ministered in Jerusalem's final decades before its fall to Babylon in 586 BC. For forty years he warned an unrepentant nation of coming judgement, suffering rejection, imprisonment and despair for a message no one wanted to hear.

Yet his book also holds some of the Old Testament's brightest promises — of a restoration after seventy years, and of a 'new covenant' written on the heart (31:31–34), which the New Testament takes up as fulfilled in Christ. Deeply personal in its laments, Jeremiah is the portrait of a faithful servant persevering in a collapsing world.