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Jeremiah
The «weeping prophet» — called as a young man to warn Judah of coming exile, who wept over a people that would not hear and yet promised a new covenant.
Jeremiah was called «before he was formed in the womb» (Jer 1:5) and ministered through forty years of Judah's decline. He was imprisoned, beaten, threatened, and finally taken to Egypt. He wrote what we now call Jeremiah and Lamentations.
Despite the weight of his message, his book contains one of the Bible's most luminous promises: a new covenant written on the heart (Jer 31:31–34), fulfilled in Christ. Jeremiah is the prophet of tears who still saw God's everlasting love.
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Jeremiah 1:5 ““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”” Jeremiah 31:33 ““But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
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