Jeremiah Outline

I. The Call of Jeremiah (1:1-19)

II. Oracles of Judgment and Promise for Judah (2:1-6:30)

  • A. The Case Against God’s People (2:1-2:37)
  • B. The Call for Judah’s Return (3:1-4:4)
  • C. Judgment Against Judah (4:5-18)
  • D. The Land Shall Be a Desolation (4:19-31)
  • E. Jerusalem Forsakes the LORD (5:1-13)
  • F. The LORD Will Bring Judgment (5:14-31)
  • G. The LORD is Full of Wrath (6:1-30)

III. Judgment for Idolatry (7:1-29:32)

  • A. False Worship in the Land (7:1-8:3)
  • B. Judah’s Sin (8:4-17)
  • C. Jeremiah's Lament (8:18-9:26)
  • D. The LORD and Idols (10:1-25)
  • E. The Covenant Broken (11:1-23)
  • F. Jeremiah's Complaint (12:1-17)
  • G. The Spoiled Loincloth (13:1-11)
  • H. Jars of Wine (13:12-14)
  • I. Captivity Threatened (13:15-27)
  • J. Drought, Sword, and Famine (14:1-22)
  • K. Judgment On the People, Deliverance for Jeremiah (15:1-21)
  • L. Signs of Disaster and Comfort (16:1-17:18)
  • M. Keeping the Sabbath (17:19-27)
  • N. The Potter and the Clay (18:1-19:13)
  • O. Jeremiah at the Temple (19:14-20:18)
  • P. Judgment Against Evil Kings (21:1-22:30)
  • Q. The Promise of the Davidic King (23:1-8)
  • R. Judgment of the False Prophets (23:9-40)
  • S. Good and Bad Figs (24:1-10)
  • T. Seventy Years of Captivity (25:1-38)
  • U. Jeremiah’s Life Threatened (26:1-24)
  • V. Judah to Serve Babylon (27:1-22)
  • W. Hananiah, the False Prophet (28:1-17)
  • X. Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles (29:1-32)

IV. Promises of Restoration (30:1-33:26)

  • A. Fortunes Restored (30:1-31:26)
  • B. The New Covenant (31:27-40)
  • C. Jeremiah Buys a Field as a Sign (32:1-49)
  • D. David Will Never Fall (33:1-26)

V. The Last Days of Jerusalem (34:1-39:18)

  • A. Jeremiah’s Message Rejected (34:1-36:32)
  • B. Jeremiah Imprisoned (37:1-38:28)
  • C. The Fall of Jerusalem (39:1-18)

VI. The Aftermath of the Fall (40:1-45:5)

  • A. Jeremiah Freed (40:1-12)
  • B. Gedeliah’s Assassination (40:13-41:18)
  • C. Jeremiah Warns Against Fleeing to Egypt (42:1-22)
  • D. Flight to Egypt (43:1-13)
  • E. Prophecy in Egypt (44:1-30)
  • F. The LORD’S Promise to Baruch (45:1-5)

VII. Oracles Against the Nations (46:1-52:34)

  • A. Egypt (46:1-28)
  • B. Philistia (47:1-7)
  • C. Moab (48:1-47)
  • D. Ammon (49:1-6)
  • E. Edom (49:7-22)
  • F. Damascus (49:23-27)
  • G. Kedar and Hazor (49:28-33)
  • H. Elam (49:34-39)
  • I. Babylon (50:1-51:64)

VIII. The Fall of Jerusalem (52:1-34)