Även känd som: Jirmeja, Jeremiah, Yirmeyahu, Jeremias
Det delade kungariketProphetPriestc. 650–570 BC
Jeremiah is called 'the weeping prophet' because he mourned over Jerusalem's sin and coming destruction. He prophesied for more than 40 years and warned against the Babylonian invasion. Despite persecution and suffering, he remained faithful and prophesied about the new covenant that God would establish.
13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug for themselves cisterns—cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
6So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.
7But Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the king's palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,
10Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, "Take thirty men with you from here and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."
11So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to a room beneath the treasury in the palace. From there he took worn-out rags and cast-off clothing and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
33But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
34No longer will anyone teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, "Know the LORD," for they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their guilt and remember their sin no more.
14I will let myself be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes. I will gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.