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JEREMIAH – LESSON FIVE

I. JEREMIAH’S PERSONAL TRIALS AND SAYINGS (15:10-20:18).  

A. Jeremiah’s woe of being born for contention, and God’s answer (15:10-14).

B. Jeremiah questions God’s deliverance as he suffers for righteousness sake, and God’s answer (15:15-21).

C. Jeremiah denied marriage – symbolic woe of coming judgment (16:1-13).

D. A new Exodus promised (16:14-15).

E. God with his fishermen and hunters will bring judgment upon his people in the land (16:16-18).

F. God with His fishermen and hunters will bring judgment upon His people in the land (16:16-18).

G. Miscellaneous sayings (17:1-13).

1. Judah’s guilt cannot be erased (17:1-4).

2. Trust in God rather than man (17:5-8).

3. God knows the heart and rewards justly (17:9-11).

4. Jehovah – the hope of Israel (17:12-13).

H. Jeremiah’s praise and lament (17:14-18).

I. Admonition to keep the Sabbath holy (17:19-27)

J. The parable of the potter and his vessel (18:1-12)

K. Israel’s unnatural behavior and its consequences (18:13-17).

L. Jeremiah’s reaction to a plot against him (18:18-23).

M. The symbol of a people to be broken by God – a potter’s broken jar (19:1-20:6).

N. Jeremiah’s inner struggle about his calling (20:7-13).

O. Jeremiah’s curses the day of his birth – depths of despair (20:14-18).

Questions:

1. Why did Jeremiah consider himself a man of “strife” and “contention”?

2. How does God answer Jeremiah’s “woe” of 15:10?  

                                                                  

3. In 15:15-18, what all does Jeremiah question?

4. What does God say Jeremiah must do if he is to stand before God and be as God’s mouth or God’s prophet?

5. Why was Jeremiah deprived of marriage?

6. “As Jehovah liveth” is a form of an _________________________________.

7. From where does God promise to bring His people?

8. What two figures does Jeremiah use to show that God’s people can not hide from the consequences of their sins?

9. How would the nations know that God’s name is “Jehovah”?

  

10. What is the significance of the instrument and place the sin of Judah is graven?

11. What is the difference in the heart of those who are cursed and blessed?

12. Explain why is the heart something man cannot know:

13. What blessing and curse does Jeremiah connect with keeping and not keeping the sabbath day holy?  

14. What is the application of the parable of the potter’s vessel?

15. What horrible thing had the virgin of Israel done?

16. Can the Christian react today towards his enemies as Jeremiah did in 18:18-23, and    20:7-13?

17. Of what was the “broken jar” symbolic?

18. Jeremiah cursed the day he was _____________.   Why?