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Jeremiah and Lamentations: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    The Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1–6, 26–29, 35–38)
    19 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Jeremiah: Idolatry and Anguish (Jeremiah 39–51)
    20 Activities
  3. Lesson Three
    Jeremiah: Shame and Dignity (Jeremiah 7–20)
    21 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    Jeremiah: A Future Hope (Jeremiah 21–25, 30–34)
    21 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Lamentations
    21 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
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    1 Assessment

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Jeremiah’s message recalls the “Song of Moses” in Deuteronomy. Although Jeremiah’s role in the community and his relationship with the people are very different from Moses’, his critique of idolatry parallels that of the great prophet of the Exodus. 

Throughout Jeremiah we find echoes of the earlier song. See the table below for some examples, and then answer the questions in the exercise that follows.

Deuteronomy 32 (ESV)Jeremiah (ESV)
Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? (32:6) For my people are foolish; they know me not. (4:22)
Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you? (32:6)Who say to a tree, “You are my father,” and to a stone, “You gave me birth.” For they have turned their back to me. (2:27)
Then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. (32:15) You have rejected me, declares the Lord; you keep going backward. (15:6)
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods. (32:16)You . . . scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree. (3:13)
With abominations they provoked him to anger. (32:16) They pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. (7:18)

Adapted from: Jack R. Lundbom, Jeremiah 1-20, 1999, pp. 110-114.