JEREMIAH: The Book of

The Book of Jeremiah ruminates on his role as a servant of God. Jeremiah is intended as a message to the Jews in exile in Babylon explaining the disaster of exile as God's response to Israel's pagan worship: the people says Jeremiah are like an unfaithful wife and rebellious children their infidelity and rebelliousness made judgement inevitable although restoration and a new covenant are foreshadowed.