JEREMIAH
Weeping Prophet · Covenant Breakdown · Exile · New Covenant
Expanded Museum Poster · Timeline Theme Table
1 · Core Story & Meaning
Jeremiah speaks during Judah’s last days: relentless warnings, rejected messages, heartbreaking grief, and stubborn hope—God will plant again and make a new covenant beyond the ruins.
Core Sentence · Jeremiah in One Line
Jeremiah announces inevitable collapse, weeps over the people, and proclaims a new covenant written on hearts.
Jeremiah
├─ warning
├─ call to return
├─ judgment
└─ hope beyond collapse
Emotionally: alarm → grief → sober clarity → hope on the far side.
Four Major Movements
How the book actually flows:
1. CALL & EARLY WARNINGS (1–20): rejection begins
2. CONFRONTATION & COLLAPSE (21–29): siege logic; letters to exiles
3. BOOK OF COMFORT (30–33): restoration and new covenant
4. FALL & AFTERMATH (34–52): Jerusalem falls; scattered survivors
This is the “museum walk path” you can follow as a clean narrative rail.
2 · Key Scenes & Emotional Gestures
Four scenes that carry the book’s emotional and spiritual load-bearing moments.
Scene · Call & Mouth Touched (Jer 1)
A reluctant mouth made bold.
God
└─ touches mouth; appoints
Jeremiah
└─ protests youth; then speaks
Fear replaced by commission.
Scene · Broken Cisterns (Jer 2)
Abandoning living water.
God
└─ fountain of life
People
└─ cracked cisterns that leak
Grief over self-inflicted thirst.
Scene · Letter to Exiles (Jer 29)
Seek the city’s welfare while you wait.
Exile
└─ long
Command
└─ build, plant, pray; hope later
Patient hope in long disruption.
Scene · New Covenant (Jer 31)
Law written on hearts.
Old
└─ broken
New
└─ internal, forgiven, known
Soft hope after hard truth.
3 · Timeline of Themes by Story Order
Rows follow story order (top = early, bottom = late). Columns track our six museum themes.
| Story Order |
Section Block |
Creation |
Fall |
Covenant |
Promise |
Faithfulness |
Exile |
| 1 · Jer 1–6 |
Call & Covenant Lawsuit |
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idolatry |
God’s claim |
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| 2 · Jer 7–20 |
Temple Sermon & Rejection |
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false security |
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truth spoken at cost |
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| 3 · Jer 21–29 |
Siege Logic & Exile Letters |
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future restoration hinted |
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exile near/arrives |
| 4 · Jer 30–33 |
Book of Comfort |
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new covenant |
planting again |
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| 5 · Jer 34–45 |
Fall & Trauma |
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fracture and fear |
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Jerusalem falls |
| 6 · Jer 46–52 |
Oracles & Epilogue |
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God judges nations |
exile confirmed |
Jeremiah is the museum’s tear-stained corridor: truth spoken through grief, with a ‘new covenant’ plaque at the far end.