The New Covenant and Future
"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love"
When King Jehoiakim didn't like what Jeremiah's scribe, Baruch, wrote on a scroll, what did the king do to it?
(Jeremiah 36:23)
Cut it with a pen knife and burned it in the fire
The book of Lamentations is a funeral song/poem mourning the destruction of what major holy city?
(Introduction of Lamentations 1)
Jerusalem
In Jeremiah 31:33, where does the Lord say He will write His law in the latter days?
"In their inward parts, and write it in their hearts."
Because Jeremiah kept prophesying that Jerusalem would fall, angry officials did what?
(Jeremiah 38:6)
Threw him into an empty cistern/dungeon pit where he sank in the mire
Even though Lamentations 3 starts out deeply depressed and overwhelmed by affliction, what phrase completely shifts the tone in verse 21?
"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
According to Jeremiah 31:13, the Lord says He will turn their mourning into what?
"I will turn their mourning into joy"
Who bravely rescued Jeremiah from the muddy pit by pulling him up with old rags and ropes?
(Jeremiah 38:7-13)
Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian eunuch
According to Lamentations 3:23, how often are the Lord’s mercies renewed?
"New every morning: great is thy faithfulness"
Despite knowing Jerusalem would be destroyed and taken over, what did the Lord ask Jeremiah to do in Jeremiah 32:8-9?
Purchase land
After finding out that King Jehoiakim burned the scroll, how did Jeremiah respond?
(Jeremiah 36:28, 32)
Rewrote the original prophesies, and added even more
In Lamentations 3:27, what does the writer say is good for a man to bear while he is young?
That he bear the yoke in his youth