This quiz, Jeremiah, looks at the ‘weeping prophet’.
The second of the Prophetic Books, and the twenty-fourth book in the Bible, is the Book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah lived 80 -100 years after the death of Isaiah and was the prophet to the last five kings of Judah. He has been called the 'weeping prophet' because of his sadness for his people's sin, and he witnessed the capture of Jerusalem and the exile of its people, both of which he had predicted would come if the people did not turn back to God.
Jeremiah is not all doom and gloom. He tells us of God's promise to renew his people in the future.
Jeremiah 19:10-13
"Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, and shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods"