"'For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate,...

"'You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, "Do not go to Egypt to live there"'" (Jeremiah 43:2). The people of...

"'"Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, 'Buy the field for money and get witnesses'--though the city is given into the hands of the...

"'For twenty-three years [...] the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened'"...

"'Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?'"...

"'Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?'" (Jeremiah 13:27). Jeremiah's title, "The Weeping Prophet,"...

"But the LORD said to me, 'Do not say, "I am only a youth"; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you...

“‘And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell...

“‘Thus says the LORD: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, then I will...

“‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from...

“‘“Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be...