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But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
Because everywhere I send you, you shall go,
And all that I command you, you shall speak.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTMouthsLimitations Of YouthGod Sending ProphetsSpeaking The Word God Givesspeakingteenager

“For cross to the coastlands of Kittim and see,
And send to Kedar and observe closely
And see if there has been such a thing as this!

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, amongst believersCertificate of divorceSpiritual HarlotryBills Of DivorceRelated NationsNo Fear Of GodBackslidingBackslidersInfidelitywhores

Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelMediatorMinistry, Nature OfLeaving EgyptThose Who Rose EarlyTimes Of People

I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”

Verse ConceptsGod Scattering IsraelNot Knowing PeopleGod Will Kill His People

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

Verse ConceptsSkillWisdom, Human NatureMournersWailingWomen WorkingBeing A Woman Of God

“Their nobles have sent their servants for water;
They have come to the cisterns and found no water.
They have returned with their vessels empty;
They have been put to shame and humiliated,
And they cover their heads.

Verse ConceptsCisternsNoblesDry PlacesSeeking WaterShaming People

Then the Lord said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByDeception Through False TeachersVisionsDivinationWicked ProphetsProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfFamine KillingNo More FamineFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodRejection Of God, Results OfReprobates

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

Verse ConceptsFishesHuntingRocksFishermenFish

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the people:

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLiesMisleading DreamsBeing MisleadGod Not SendingDreams And False Prophets

For if you say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’”’

“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”

Verse ConceptsPlaguesFamine Coming From GodGod Gave The LandGod Will Kill His People

And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfWatchfulness, DivineRefusing To HearThose Who Rose EarlyDoing RepeatedlyGod Sends Prophets

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Prophecies Ofelection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsMinistry, Nature OfWar As God's JudgmentHissingGod Will Kill His PeopleMade A Horror

For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Verse ConceptsBeverages, FigurativeWineThe Coming Day Of God's Wrath

They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

Verse ConceptsStaggeringGod Making Drunk

Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it:

Verse ConceptsBeverages, FigurativeGod Making Drunk

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Verse ConceptsDegradationGod Making DrunkDrunkennessbeeralcoholism

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and to all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Verse ConceptsGod Sending Prophets

Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsHonestyInnocence, Teaching OnGod Sending Prophets

Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan the son of Achbor and certain men with him went into Egypt.

and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Verse ConceptsenvoyVisitingMessengers Sent Out

for I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may drive you out and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent.”

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Inspiration Of OtDiscerning God's ThingsNo Peace

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the Lord has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Verse ConceptsPersuasionFalse ProphetsSatan, Agents OfTrust, Lack OfTrusting Deceptive ThingsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToLettersProphecy, Methods Of Ot

The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled To

For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWicked ProphetsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not Sent

I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRestoring NationsGathering IsraelFinding GodPromise of return

because they have not listened to My words,’ declares the Lord, ‘which I sent to them again and again by My servants the prophets; but you did not listen,’ declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsListeningRefusing To HearThose Who Rose EarlyDoing Repeatedly

You, therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, ‘The exile will be long; build houses and live in them and plant gardens and eat their produce.’”’”

Verse ConceptsHorticultureAfter A Long TimeGardens

Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, “Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, although I did not send him, and he has made you trust in a lie,”

Verse ConceptsTrusting Deceptive ThingsGod Not SendingProphets Who Were Not SentFalse Apostles, Prophets And Teachers

At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

Verse ConceptsListeningSabbatical YearYearsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsSeven YearsPeople Freeing Slavesfreeliberation

Also I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, sending them again and again, saying: ‘Turn now every man from his evil way and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to worship them. Then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your forefathers; but you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

Verse ConceptsConvincingConversion, God's demands forIndifferenceListeningMonotheismProphets, Role OfReformationRenunciationRepentance, Importance OfSin, God's Remedy ForThe Call Of GodThose Who Rose EarlyDifferent GodsDoing RepeatedlyDo Not Have Other gods

Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king.

Verse ConceptsStandingReading The ScripturesPrivate Rooms

Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray to the Lord our God on our behalf.”

Verse ConceptsPray For Us

“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsEarthly Armies

Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, “Is there a word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

Verse ConceptsPrivacyInformation In SecretGod Will Cause DefeatQuestioning God

Then King Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance that is in the house of the Lord; and the king said to Jeremiah, “I am going to ask you something; do not hide anything from me.”

Verse ConceptsAskingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

So Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard sent word, along with Nebushazban the Rab-saris, and Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the leading officers of the king of Babylon;

they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By Peopleliberation

and said to him, “Are you well aware that Baalis the king of the sons of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific People

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which the Lord your God will send you to us.

Verse ConceptsThe Witness Of God

and said to them, “Thus says the Lord the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition before Him:

For you have only deceived yourselves; for it is you who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray for us to the Lord our God; and whatever the Lord our God says, tell us so, and we will do it.”

Verse ConceptsDeceiving OneselfWe Obey

So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the Lord your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

But as soon as Jeremiah, whom the Lord their God had sent, had finished telling all the people all the words of the Lord their God—that is, all these words—

Verse ConceptsLast Words

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPride, Results OfPride, Results InProphesying Lies

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am going to send and get Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and I am going to set his throne right over these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsMinistry, Nature OfThrone

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.”

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfAbominations, Sin IsThose Who Rose EarlyDoing Repeatedly

Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.

Verse ConceptsBreaking Containers

I have heard a message from the Lord,
And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,
Gather yourselves together and come against her,
And rise up for battle!”

Verse Conceptsenvoy

‘So I will shatter Elam before their enemies
And before those who seek their lives;
And I will bring calamity upon them,
Even My fierce anger,’ declares the Lord,
‘And I will send out the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.

Verse Conceptsend