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Throughout the writings of Jeremiah—in Jeremiah and Lamentations—the predominant theme is God's sovereignty. In the book of Jeremiah, we see that God retains the ability to choose his prophet, to determine the fate of the nations, and to continue to hold out both the threat of destruction and the hope of deliverance. Lamentations examines the same themes from the viewpoint of the sufferers....

need for their repentance is more pressing, in view of the current circumstances. Failure to do so will cause God’s wrath to break out and burn like fire … burn with no one to quench it. He mentions this because he realizes that he is talking here to a people who are experts at trying to deceive him with external acts of repentance. But he is a God who “searches the heart” (17:10), who knows that Judah “did not return to me with all her heart,” that her acts of repentance under Josiah have been “only
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