Despite the themes of doom and destruction, the primary message of Jeremiah is one of the love and grace of a God who never gives up on those he has called to be his own. The prophet's life is characterized by suffering, but he points to a new beginning, a new covenant and a new hope, eventually made possible through the unique Suffering Servant. Lamentations powerfully expresses personal and national suffering. Yet, even in these utterances of desperate grief, there are glimpses of hope. Hetty Lalleman opens up these fascinating books for today's readers.

Hetty Lalleman

Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Jeremiah and Lamentations

JEREMIAH

LAMENTATIONS

GENERAL PREFACE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

CHIEF ABBREVIATIONS

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Texts and versions

INTRODUCTION

1. God's prophet

2. Historical background

3. The relationship between the Hebrew and the Greek text

4. How did the book of Jeremiah originate?

5. The verb šûb

6. Two sets of metaphors

7. Further literary features

8. 'Falsehood' in the book of Jeremiah20

9. The 'Confessions' and the suffering of the prophet

10. The Oracles Against the Nations

11. Influences from Hosea and Amos

12. The new covenant

13. Jeremiah in the New Testament

14. Division of the book

ANALYSIS

1. PROLOGUE AND BEGINNINGS (1:1–19)

2. CALLS TO REPENTANCE AND WORDS OF JUDGMENT (2 – 6)

3. THE COVENANT BROKEN: JEREMIAH'S LAMENTS (7 – 20)

4. CONCERNING KINGS (21 – 22)

5. TRUE VERSUS FALSE PROPHECY (23 – 29)

6. THE BOOK OF COMFORT (30 – 33)

7. DEALINGS WITH ZEDEKIAH AND JEHOIAKIM (34 – 38)

8. THE FINAL DAYS (39– 45)

9. ORACLES AGAINST THE NATIONS (46 – 51)

10. EPILOGUE (52:1–34)

COMMENTARY

A. Prologue (1:1–19)

A. A broken marriage (2:1–37)

B. Turn, turn, turn! (3:1 – 4:4)

C. Chaos announced (4:5–31)

D. Searching for the righteous (5:1–31)

E. Tested and rejected (6:1–30)

3. THE COVENANT BROKEN: JEREMIAH’S LAMENTS (7 – 20)

A. The loss of a covenant people (7:1 – 8:3)

B. A wounded nation (8:4 – 9:3)

C. Analysis of a broken society (9:4–26)

D. Of idols and judgment (10:1–25)

E. Divine disappointment (11:1–17)

F. God and prophet suffer (11:18 – 12:17)

Additional note: The plea for vengeance2

G. All beauty gone? (13:1–27)

H. Drought and disaster (14:1 – 15:9)

I. A lamenting prophet reproached (15:10–21)

J. A time to mourn (16:1–21)

K. Hearts and lives investigated (17:1–27)

L. God and prophet versus people (18:1–23)

M. Brokenness all over (19:1–15)

N. Chapter of despair (20:1–18)

A. Threatening judgment (21:1–14)

B. 'Royal matters' and 'royals matter' (22:1–30)

A. Leaders who mislead (23:1–40)

B. Who is on the right side? (24:1–10)

C. A prophet to the nations (25:1–38)

D. A true prophet in danger (26:1–24)

E. The yoke of Babylon (27:1–22)

F. False versus true (28:1–17)

G. Concerning the exiles (29:1–32)

A. Judgment turned upside down (30:1–24)

B. A new covenant (31:1–40)

C. A field of hope (32:1–44)

D. Healing for a nation in all areas (33:1–26)

A. Consequences of disobedience (34:1–22)

B. An object lesson (35:1–19)

C. A king rejects God's word (36:1–32)

D. A prophet consulted and rejected (37 – 38)

8. THE FINAL DAYS (39 – 45)

A. The unhappy end (39:1–18)

B. Monstrous murders (40 – 41)

C. Discouraging disobedience (42:1–22)

D. God in control, even in Egypt (43:1–13)

E. God's word against the people's (44:1–30)

F. An agonized assistant (45:1–5)

A. Message to Egypt (46:1–28)

B. Message to the Philistines (47:1–7)

C. Woe to Moab! (48:1–47)

D. Messages to a variety of nations (49:1–39)

E. Babylon's end (50 – 51)

A. Important appendix (52:1–34)

Lifting out the understated themes of love, grace, promise and renewal in Jeremiah and Lamentations, this commentary by Hetty Lalleman opens our eyes to an important chapter in salvation history.

Despite the themes of doom and destruction, the primary message of Jeremiah is one of the love and grace of a God who never gives up on those he has called to be his own. The prophet's life is characterized by suffering, but he points to a new beginning, a new covenant and a new hope, eventually made possible through the unique Suffering Servant. Lamentations powerfully expresses personal and national suffering. Yet, even in these utterances of desperate grief, there are glimpses of hope. Lifting out these significant but understated themes in Jeremiah and Lamentations, this commentary by Hetty Lalleman opens our eyes to an important chapter in salvation history.

The Tyndale Bible Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means

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Traditionally, Jeremiah is thought of as a book of judgment, doom and destruction. But the message Jeremiah prophecies describe a God who will never give up on those he has called to be his people – a God of love, grace and justice.

While Lamentations documents a distressing and dark age for the Israelites, it too provides rays of hope and grace through the grief of a nation. Hetty Lalleman gives us an informative and fascinating commentary on these two books, offering today’s readers a glimpse of the past and the new beginning, new covenant and new hope the prophets foretell.

The Tyndale Bible Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. Inside these commentaries are:

• A concise but thorough introduction to each book dealing with its authorship, date, original setting and purpose.   
• A structural analysis  
• Section-by-section exegesis, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation.   
• Additional Notes providing wider discussion of particular difficulties.

The aim throughout is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain. These new editions have been given a new global branding, a large and vibrant paperback format for better value and easier-on-the-eye font and layout.

Hetty Lalleman is tutor in Old Testament studies at Spurgeon's College, London. She is the author of ‘Celebrating the Law? Rethinking Old Testament Ethics’, and is on the advisory board for an Old Testament commentary series in Dutch, to which she has contributed a volume on Jeremiah. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled ‘Jeremiah in Prophetic Tradition’.

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