What Seest Thou, Jeremiah?
A. CONCERNING EGYPT (ch. 46).
1. Defeat of Pharoah at Carchemish foretold (vs. 1-2).
a. The advance of the Egyptian host to battle (vs. 1-6).
b. Their flight and destruction (vs. 7-12).
2. The victorious invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzer foretold (vs. 12-26).
3. A promise for Israel (vs. 27-28).
B. CONCERNING THE PHILISTINES (ch. 47).
1. Description of the ruin breaking over Philistia (vs. 1-4).
2. It operation on the country and on the people (vs. 5-7).
C. CONCERNING MOAB (ch. 48).
1. The destruction of Moab’s national life (vs. 1-8).
2. Moab is laid waste and its inhabitants carried captive (vs. 9-15).
3. Moab’s glory is about to be turned to shame (vs. 16-25).
4. Moab’s haughtiness and fall (vs. 26-35).
5. Dirge, added lamentations, over the fall (vs. 36-38).
6. Inescapable destruction (vs. 39-44).
7. Conclusion: hope of the latter days (vs. 45-47).
D. CONCERNING SMALLER NATIONS (ch. 49).
1. Ammon (vs. 1-6).
2. Concerning Edom (vs. 7-22).
a. The judgment is inevitable (vs. 7-13).
b. The nature and occasion of the judgment (vs. 14-19).
c. The judgment will come unexpectedly (vs. 20-22).
3. Damascus (Syria) (vs. 23-27).
4. Kedar and kingdoms of Hazor (vs. 28-33).
5. Elam (vs. 34-39).
E. CONCERNING BABYLON (ch. 50-51).
1. The fall of Babylon, the deliverance of Israel (50:1-10).
2. The shame of Babylon and the glory of Israel (vs. 11-20).
3. The pride and power of Babylon are broken (vs. 21-28).
A punishment for the sacrilege committed at the temple of Jerusalem.
4. The pride of Babylon humbled through the utter destruction of the people and the
land (vs. 29-40).
5. The agents who execute judgment, from the north, a destroying wind (50:41 – 51:4).
6. The call of Israel out of Babylon – the golden cup is broken (vs. 5-10).
7. The Medes, the instrument of Jehovah’s vengeance (vs. 11-14).
8. The omnipotence of the Lord who will destroy Babylon (vs. 15-26).
a. Against the Almighty mankind and man-made idols are helpless (vs. 15-19).
b. The shattering hammer shattered (vs. 20-24).
c. The mount of destruction destroyed (vs. 25-26).
9. A summons to the nations to fight against Babylon (vs. 27-40).
a. The call to the nations (vs. 27-32).
b. Babylon is like the threshing floor being prepared for threshing (vs. 33-40).
10. Babylon falls and perishes (vs. 41-49).
a. The prison is demolished, prisoners set free (vs. 41-46).
b. The nations rejoice at Babylon’s fall (vs. 47-49).
11. Final summing up of the offence and punishment of Babylon (vs. 50-58).
12. Epilogue (vs. 59-64).
1. The fate of Zedekiah at the taking of Jerusalem (vs. 1-11).
2. Destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple,
and carrying away of the people (vs. 12-23).
3. The arrest of the chief officers (vs. 24-30).
4. Liberation of Jehoiachin (vs. 31-34).
