Jeremiah – General
Jeremiah contains nothing of importance, no facts of value; nothing but fault-finding, lamentations, croaking’s, wailings, curses and promises; nothing but famine and prayer, the prosperity of the wicked, the ruin of the Jews, the captivity and return, and at last Jeremiah, the traitor, in the stocks and in prison.
Jeremiah 1:5 - Christians often cite this verse as biblical proof that a fetus is a person. Their rationale is if God knows us in the womb, then we must be a person. Of course, they often overlook these verses that illustrate God's willingness to kill both the born and unborn.
Jeremiah 2:30 - God tries, but in vain, to "correct" his people by killing their children.
Jeremiah 3:1 - A divorced woman is "polluted" when she remarries. The man, of course, remains perfectly clean through it all, even though he was the one who "put her away" in the first place.
Jeremiah 3:2 - "In the ways thou hast sat for them ..." A woman can't even sit anymore without being condemned by God.
Jeremiah 3:3 - Jeremiah loves to insult people. His favorite insult is to call someone a whore. In this verse he accuses Jedah of having a "whore's forehead."
Jeremiah 3:17 - Jeremiah prophesies that all nations of the earth will embrace Judaism. This has not and will not happen.
Jeremiah 3:20 - "As a wife treacherously departed from her husband ..." If a woman leaves her husband, she is "treacherous," but a man is blameless when he "puts her away" for no reason.
Jeremiah 4:4 - Circumcise the foreskin of your heart or God will burn you to death. To rephrase this in the NT way: Repent, accept Jesus or go to hell.
Jeremiah 4:6-7 - God will bring evil to destroy cities and wipe out all of the inhabitants.
Jeremiah 4:10 - God has "greatly deceived this people."
Jeremiah 5:3 - God sends plagues and violence to correct his people, but they still won't repent. Who would?
Jeremiah 5:12-13 - God will kill those who believe and preach the wrong doctrines.
Jeremiah 5:22 - God gets off on our fear of him. Even though, elsewhere, we're told that we don't have to fear God. Yeah right.
Jeremiah 6:11-12 - "I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary of holding it in." He's anxious to "pour it out" on children, young men, husbands, wives, and old people.
Jeremiah 6:12 - God threatens to punish the men by taking away all of their property, including their wives, and giving them to others.
Jeremiah 6:19 - God "will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts" because they refuse to do whatever the hell he asks them to do.
Jeremiah 6:21 - God plans to kill pretty much everyone: Fathers and sons, family, friends, and neighbours. God plans to kill them all after laying a stumbling block before them, just to make sure.
Jeremiah 7:16 - God says that there are some people that you just shouldn't bother praying for. And if you do he won't listen anyway.
Jeremiah 7:18 - God is angered by children who gather wood, fathers who make fires, and women that make bread for the "queen of heaven" (Mary?) and other gods.
Jeremiah 8:3 - People will choose to kill them selves, rather than be killed by their vicious God.
Jeremiah 8:10 - To punish men, God will "give their wives unto others."
Jeremiah 9:4-6 - Don't trust anyone. Not even your neighbours, family, or friends. Those who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers.
Jeremiah 9:21-22 - God will kill children and young men, and the dead bodies "shall fall as dung .... and none shall gather them."
Jeremiah 10:11 - God says that these other gods will perish.
Jeremiah 10:23 - According to Jeremiah, humans lack free will.
Jeremiah 10:25 - Jeremiah prays for the destruction of the people that don't know God or call on his name.
Jeremiah 11:11 - God "will bring evil upon" people from which they will not be able to escape. And if they cry out to him for help, he will not help them.
Jeremiah 11:14 - God forbids others from praying for his victims. Such prayers would go unanswered anyway, he says, because he "will not hear them in their time of trouble."
Jeremiah 12:1 - Jeremiah asks God why wicked people are so happy and prosperous. But Ps.34:21 says that wicked people are desolate.
Jeremiah 12:3 - Jeremiah asks God to drag away his enemies like "sheep for the slaughter."
Jeremiah 13:13-14 - God plans to make everyone in the kingdom drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." The merciful God of Peace vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." What a guy.
Jeremiah 13:22 - God compares the destruction of Jerusalem to the rape of a woman who deserves to be raped because she has sinned.
Jeremiah 14:12 - God will ignore the peoples' prayers and their animal and other kinds of sacrifices, promising to kill them all instead by war, starvation, and disease.
Jeremiah 15:2-4 - God plans to do three things to his people: 1) kills them with swords, 2) tear their flesh with dogs and 3) have the birds, and the beasts eat their bodies. Why will he do these terrible things? Because of something some former king did!
Jeremiah 15:6 - God is weary of repenting. But in other places the Bible says that God never repents and never gets weary.
Jeremiah 15:7-9 - God again threatens Jerusalem with mass destruction. Here are some of the highlights: He will kill children, make more widows than there are grains of sand, terrorize cities, and then kill the survivors.
Jeremiah 16:3-7 - God has ordained that everyone (mothers and daughters, fathers and sons) "shall die of grievous deaths," and that they shall neither "be lamented" nor even buried, but "they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth." For he has removed peace, "loving kindness," and mercy from the people.
Jeremiah 17:5 - God tells us not to trust anyone, not even our family or friends, by saying: "Cursed be the man that trusteth in man."
Jeremiah 17:18 - Jeremiah asks God to bring evil upon his enemies and to "destroy them with double destruction."
Jeremiah 18:11 - God admits that he does evil things to people.
Jeremiah 18:21 - Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children with starvation.
Jeremiah 19:4, 7-9 - For worshipping "other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known," God will make parents eat their own children, and friends each other. Then he'll feed whoever's left over to the birds. This will make everyone that passes by hiss with astonishment.
Jeremiah 19:11-13 - God will break those who worship other gods as though they were made of clay, killing so many that there will not be enough room to bury them all.
Jeremiah 20:4 - After Jeremiah is roughed up and arrested on the orders of Pashur the priest, he threatens Pashur and his friends, family and all of Judah with captivity and slaughter. Just because of the actions of one man?
Jeremiah 21:7 - God will deliver Zedekiah and those that survive the famine, disease, and war into Nebuchadrezzar's hand, and "he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy."
Jeremiah 21:9-13 - God tells the Judeans to either surrender to the Babylonians and become their slaves or die. "Behold, I am against thee."
Jeremiah 22:25-30 - God will have Jeconiah's enemies kill him and his mother and then ensure that he die without leaving any sons? Which seems a bit strange since Jeconiah is listed as an ancestor of Jesus in Mt.1:12.
Jeremiah 23:12 - God promises to bring more evil upon his chosen people.
Jeremiah 25:12 - God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people, even though God Himself is the one who made the Babylonians attack and enslave Judah! As part of the punishment God will take the land of the Babylonians and "make it perpetual desolations." A false prophecy, since present-day Iraq is quite occupied.
Jeremiah 25:26-29 - God will force "all the kingdoms of the world" to drink "and be drunken". Then he'll kill "all the inhabitants of the earth" with a sword. So the flood did not work now he is going to try the sword…
Jeremiah 25:30 - God is really getting into all of this killing. He roars, he mightily roars, and he shouts.
Jeremiah 25:31-33 - God kills so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them; "they shall be dung upon the ground."
Jeremiah 25:37-38 - God will destroy "the peaceable habitations" and make the land desolate "because of his fierce anger."
Jeremiah 29:17-18 - God will send his usual blessings upon his people: "the sword, the famine, and the pestilence." He "will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil." (God hates figs. It must run in the family…)
Jeremiah 29:19 - God will kill those who refuse listen to his prophets.
Jeremiah 29:32 - God will punish the children of Shemaiah for their father's false prophecy.
Jeremiah 31:15 - Matthew 2:17-18 quotes this verse, claiming that it was a prophecy of King Herod's alleged slaughter of the children in and around Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. But this passage refers to the Babylonian captivity, as is clear by reading the next two verses (16 and 17), and, thus, has nothing to do with Herod's massacre.
Jeremiah 31:22 - "The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth," contrary to Ec.1:9 which says "there is nothing new under the sun."
Jeremiah 31:32 - Misquoted in Heb.8:9.
Jeremiah 31:37 - This verse implies that the earth is on foundations and does not move. But of course we know that the earth is in constant motion as it rotates about the sun.
Jeremiah 32:42 - God brings evil upon people.
Jeremiah 33:5 - God litters the ground "with the dead bodies of men" that he has killed in his anger and fury.
Jeremiah 34:5 - God lies to Zedekiah again by telling him that he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers. But later (2 Kg.25:7 and Jer.39:6-9, Jer.52:10-11) he dies a violent death in a foreign land.
Jeremiah 35:17 - God is indeed the author of evil. Here he brags about bringing "all the evil" he can think of upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 36:3 - More evil plans from a supposedly good god.
Jeremiah 36:30 - This verse says that Jehoiakim has no successors, but 2 Kg.24:6 say that he was succeeded by his son Jehoiachin.
Jeremiah 39:6-9 - The beginning of the end for Zedekiah. Despite God's earlier assurances (34:5) that he would die peacefully at home, here Zedekiah watches as his children are killed and then has his eyes put out and he is shackled and taken to Babylon. Also, the city is burned and those remaining are enslaved.
Jeremiah 40:2 - God spreads evil wherever he goes.
Jeremiah 42:15-18, 22 - All those who move to Egypt will die by the sword, famine, or pestilence. None "shall escape from the evil" that comes directly from God. But many, including Jews, have moved to Egypt and most seem to have escaped from God's promised evil.
Jeremiah 44:2 - God boasts some more about "all the evil that [he] has brought."
Jeremiah 44:6 - When God pours forth his fury and his anger, entire cities are destroyed.
Jeremiah 45:5 - God says he will bring evil upon all flesh.
Jeremiah 46:10 - The day of the Lord will be "a day of vengeance." On that day God's sword will become drunk with blood.
Jeremiah 47:2-4 - God plans to drown the Philistines in a flood, and "all the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl."
Jeremiah 48:8 - God plans to kill just about everybody. "No city shall escape."
Jeremiah 48:10 - "Cursed by he that keepeth back his sword from blood."
Jeremiah 49:17 - God will send such marvellous plagues on Edom that everyone will hiss in astonishment.
Jeremiah 49:33 - Jeremiah predicts that humans will never again live in Hazor, but will be replaced by dragons. But people still live there and dragons have never been seen.
Jeremiah 49:37 - God plans to "bring evil upon" the people of Elam. He says he'll kill them all with a sword.
Jeremiah 50:21 - God says to do the usual thing to the inhabitants of "the land of Merathaim": kill them all.
Jeremiah 50:27-30 - God commands that all Babylonian bullocks be slaughtered, that archers shoot all Babylonians, and that all their men be killed in war.
Jeremiah 50:32 - God, the pyromaniac, will personally set the fires that will burn to death the inhabitants of entire cities.
Jeremiah 50:37 - God plans to kill all the Babylonian horses, and to make the Babylonian men "become like women." (A fate worse than death to a misogynous god.).
Jeremiah 50:39 - God prophesies that Babylon will never again be inhabited. But it has been inhabited constantly since the prophecy was supposedly made, and is inhabited still today.
Jeremiah 51:26, 29, 37, 43, 62, 64 - God says that Babylon will be desolate and uninhabited forever. He says that only dragons will live there. But Babylon has been dragon-free and continuously inhabited since then.
Jeremiah 52:10-11 - God promised Zedekiah (Jer.34:5) that he would die peacefully and be buried with his fathers. But here we see that he died a miserable death in foreign land.
