Jeremiah 36 describes how God instructed Jeremiah to write a scroll of His message to Judah. The scroll was read publicly, but the king burned it, showing his rejection of God's warnings.

Jeremiah 35 records God commanding Jeremiah to test the Rechabites by offering them wine, which they refuse because their ancestor Jonadab forbade it. God uses their obedience to shame Judah's disobedience and promises the Rechabites a lasting place before Him.

Jeremiah 34 records God's word to Zedekiah about Jerusalem's fall and his own peaceful death, then condemns Judah for freeing Hebrew servants and forcing them back into slavery. God announces that those who broke the covenant will face sword, pestilence, and famine.

Jeremiah 33 records God's word to Jeremiah while he is confined, promising restoration, healing, and a righteous Branch from David. It assures that God's covenant with David and the Levites remains as fixed as day and night.

Jeremiah 32 records the prophet buying a field in Anathoth during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, a symbolic act of hope. God then confirms that he will judge the city but will later gather his people back and restore their fortunes.

Jeremiah 31 declares God's everlasting love for Israel, promising to gather them from exile and restore their fortunes. It introduces a new covenant where God's law is written on hearts, sins are forgiven, and all will know Him intimately.

Jeremiah 30 records God's instruction to write a book of future restoration for Israel and Judah. It describes a time of great trouble followed by deliverance, healing, and the reversal of captivity.

Jeremiah sends a letter from Jerusalem to the Jewish exiles in Babylon, instructing them to build homes, plant gardens, and seek the welfare of the city where God has placed them. He also promises that after seventy years God will bring them back and give them hope and a future.

Jeremiah 28 records the prophet Hananiah contradicting Jeremiah's message of submission to Babylon, promising a quick return of the exiles and temple vessels. When Hananiah breaks the wooden yoke from Jeremiah's neck, God replaces it with an iron yoke and declares Hananiah will die for his rebellion, which happens two months later.

Jeremiah 27 records God commanding Jeremiah to make bonds and bars on his neck and send word to neighboring kings that they must serve Nebuchadnezzar. It also warns Zedekiah and the people not to listen to false prophets who promise deliverance, and it declares that the temple vessels left in Jerusalem will be carried to Babylon.

Jeremiah 26 records Jeremiah's temple sermon calling Judah to repent, his arrest by priests and prophets, and his trial before the princes and people. It contrasts his deliverance with the execution of Uriah, highlighting the danger of speaking God's word.

Jeremiah 25 announces that because Judah refused to listen to God's prophets for twenty-three years, Babylon will destroy Jerusalem and the land will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. The chapter then expands the judgment to all nations, who must drink the cup of God's wrath, with Babylon itself also punished afterward.

Jeremiah 24 presents a vision of two baskets of figs, one good and one bad, to illustrate God's differing treatment of the Judean exiles in Babylon and those left in Jerusalem. The good figs represent those God will restore and give a new heart, while the bad figs symbolize those who will face continued judgment.

Jeremiah 23 pronounces judgment on the shepherds and prophets who scattered and misled God's people, while promising to gather a remnant and raise up a righteous Branch from David. It contrasts the false security of lying dreams with the purifying power of God's true word.

Jeremiah 22 confronts the kings of Judah with a choice: execute justice and righteousness, or lose the throne and the land. It pronounces judgment on Shallum, Jehoiakim, and Coniah, tying their fate to their treatment of the vulnerable and their abandonment of Yahweh's covenant.

Jeremiah 21 records King Zedekiah's request for Yahweh to intervene against Babylon, but God instead announces judgment and sets before the people a choice between life and death. The chapter also calls the house of David to execute justice, warning that failure will bring unquenchable fire.

Jeremiah 20 recounts Pashhur's persecution of Jeremiah and the prophet's subsequent lament, which swings between despair and trust. It shows a faithful prophet wrestling honestly with God amid suffering and opposition.

Jeremiah 19 records God's command to buy a clay jar, proclaim judgment in the Valley of Hinnom, and shatter the jar as a sign that Judah's destruction is irreversible. The chapter explains that the nation's idolatry and child sacrifice have provoked a calamity so severe that the city will become a horror and its people will resort to cannibalism in siege.

Jeremiah 18 records God sending the prophet to a potter's house, where a marred vessel is reshaped into another as the potter chooses. The chapter applies this picture to Israel, calls Judah to turn from evil, and ends with a plot against Jeremiah and his prayer for justice.

Jeremiah 16 records God's command to the prophet not to marry or mourn, signaling the severity of coming judgment. It also promises a future restoration when God will bring His people back and make His name known to the nations.