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Question:
What picture does Jeremiah draw of the desolation that awaits a land that has turned its back upon God?
Answer:
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 7:33-34 KJV

Question:
What were Jeremiah’s feelings regarding those who opposed him?
Answer:
Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

Question:
What were Jeremiah’s inner feelings in the face of the popular opposition to his message?
Answer:
It reads in Jeremiah 20:14-18 KJV> Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bares me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? It reads in Jeremiah 15:10 KJV> Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. It reads in Jeremiah 9:2 KJV> Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Question:
What was the attitude of his peers toward Jeremiah?
Answer:
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
Jeremiah 20:7 KJV

Question:
What was Jeremiah’s later opinion regarding the nation that would inflict punishment upon his own?
Answer:
The Babylonians, whom he can also speak of as Chaldeans, were to be the instrument of God’s judgment. In Nebuchadnezzer’s rise to power, the distinction between Babylonians and Chaldeans formerly considered to be kindred branches of the original Semite stock, ceased to exist. (The Chaldeans were people who lived in southern Babylonia which would be the southern part of Iraq today. Sometimes the term Chaldeans is used to refer to Babylonians in general, but normally it refers to a specific semi-nomadic tribe that lived in the southern part of Babylon. The land of the Chaldeans was the southern portion of Babylon or Mesopotamia. It was generally thought to be an area about 400 miles long and 100 miles wide alongside the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.)

Question:
What hope is there for devotees of the popular religion?
Answer:
It reads in Jeremiah 7:3-4 KJV > Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.

Question:
What was Jeremiah’s original thought regarding the quarter from which doom would descend upon his nation?
Answer:
In Jeremiah the Scythians, a group of tribes living on the steppe from Carpathians to the Don, were a source of dread. It reads in Jeremiah 1:14 KJV> Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the land’s inhabitants.

Question:
What picture does Jeremiah draw of the way in which the Scythians might be expected to attack?
Answer:
It reads in Jeremiah 4:13 KJV> Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
The Scythians were an ancient Eastern Iranic nomadic people who migrated from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe. They founded a rich, powerful empire in what is now Crimea. They were known for their equestrian skills and their Scytho- style of art and culture. They existed from the 9th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

Question:
What were the characteristics of the New Covenant?
Answer:
It reads in Jeremiah 31:34 KJV>And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
It reads in Jeremiah 31:32 KJV>Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they break, although I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord:
It reads in Jeremiah 32:39 KJV> And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: (God is all powerful He is everywhere and He loves you. Come out of your hiding ask Him for forgiveness be saved and open yourself up to His tender care. He will forgive you and set you free from self.)

Question:
What were some manifestations of the false religions that flourished in Jeremiah’s time?
Answer:
It reads in Jeremiah 7:18 KJV> The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.