What Seest Thou, Jeremiah?
598 BC – Zedekiah’s 4th year.
1. What is God going to raise up against the people of Babylon? (vs. 1) What will it do? (vs. 2)
2. Why are Israel and Jacob told to flee out of Babylon? (vs. 5-6)
3. Will the efforts to save and comfort Babylon succeed? (vs. 7-10)
4. Who has God stirred up against Babylon, and why? (vs. 11-14)
5. Who does Jeremiah contrast, and how is this contrast presented? (vs. 15-19)
6. Who is the “battle-axe,” and what does he do? (vs. 20-24)
7. What is the ultimate fate of Babylon? (vs. 25-26)
8. When the Medes attack Babylon, how do Babylon’s mighty men react? (vs. 27-32)
9. What is the might of Babylon compared to and what had he done to Judah? (vs. 33-34)
10. What would God do to avenge the violence done to Jerusalem? (vs. 35-37)
11. What two figures are used to show Babylon’s destruction, what will not happen? (vs. 41-44)
12. Once tidings of trouble reach Babylon, how long will it take to fall? (vs. 45-46)
13. Those who escape are to remember what? (vs. 50-51)
14. What is God going to cause to happen to the mighty walls of Babylon? (vs. 57-58)
15. Who did Jeremiah send to Babylon when Zedekiah went? (vs. 59)
16. What did he send him with? (vs. 60)
17. What was he told to do with it? (vs. 61-63)
18. What fearful message was in what he did? (vs. 64)
