Jeremiah 18-20

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January 10, 2024

Jeremiah 18-20

This week, Jeremiah is instructed to go to a potter’s house to watch how they shape the clay and remold clay that isn’t going according to the potter's design. He is also instructed to smash a pot before the elders of Jerusalem to demonstrate the coming judgment. Jeremiah brings his sorrow before the Lord. Being a prophet has been painful for Jeremiah, and he was arrested. He tells the Lord he would stop if he could. However, the Word of the LORD is like a fire in his bones. In his despair, Jeremiah acknowledges that the Lord fights for him. 

OUTLINE

Jeremiah’s Visit to the Potter (18.1–23)[1]

01:55 - The Message of the Potter (18.1–12)

10:05 - Punishment of a Forgetful People (18.13–17)

16:39 - A Plot Against Jeremiah (18.18–23)

Lessons from a Broken Clay Jar (19.1–15)

21:11 - Assembling at the Valley of Ben Hinnom (19.1–9)

29:46 - The Broken Jar and Its Symbolic Meaning (19.10–15)

Jeremiah’s Humiliation and Despair (20.1–18)

32:23 - Pashhur’s Punishment of Jeremiah (20.1–6)

35:03 - Jeremiah’s Struggle with His Call (20.7–10)

38:53 - Jeremiah’s Prayer for Vengeance (20.11–13)

41:14 - A Curse on the Day of His Birth (20.14–18)

Outline from

Huey, F. B. Jeremiah, Lamentations. vol. 16, The New American Commentary. Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993.

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[1] F. B. Huey, Jeremiah, Lamentations, vol. 16, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 179.