What Seest Thou, Jeremiah?
1. Who contended with God, and what was his complaint? (vs. 1)
2. How does Jeremiah describe the relation of the prosperous to Jehovah? (vs. 2)
3. What did Jeremiah want God to do? (vs. 3)
4. What was the cause of the land’s destruction? (vs. 4)
5. What is the sense of Jeremiah’s question? (vs. 5)
6. Who among the people could not be trusted to look out for their good? (vs. 6)
7. What did God do with his heritage and why? (vs. 7-8) What does he compare them to?
8. Who is responsible for the desolation in Judah? (vs. 10)
9. Who has peace when God’s sword devours? (vs. 12)
10. What produces the needed shame in the hearts of the people? (vs. 13)
11. Who is to be plucked up from off their land? (vs. 14)
12. What will God do when they learn their lesson? (vs. 15)
13. When they learn the ways of God’s people, what will God do for them? (vs. 16)
14. What happens if they don’t hear? (vs. 17)
Jer. 12:1 Contend with Jehovah? èGen. 32:22-30; Luke 18:1-8; 2 Cor. 12:7-10
Gen. 18:22-33; 15:1-3; Ex. 5:22-23; 32:11-13; Josh. 7:7; Hab. 1:1-4;
Jer. 14:19-22; 20:7-9; Job. 12:6; 21:7; Psa. 37:1, 35; 73; Mal. 3:15
Psa. 51:4; Job 9:1-4; 4:17; 13:3; Rom. 3:5-6; 9:14
Isa. 1:18 ç We are invited to reason – to plead our cause.
Jer. 12:2 Near in the mouth è Matt. 15:7-9; Titus 1:16; 2 Tim. 3:1-5
