The weeping prophet — forty years of warnings, and a promise of a new covenant.
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of ______, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
Jeremiah 29:11 — the graduation-card favorite — was written to exiles being told to settle in Babylon for seventy years. The promise was real; so was the wait.
Jeremiah tried to quit preaching, but found the word 'as a burning fire shut up in my bones' — he was, in his own telling, unable to stay silent.
In its original Hebrew, Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible by word count — longer than Psalms, despite Psalms having nearly three times the chapters.
The king burned Jeremiah's scroll column by column as it was read to him. Jeremiah dictated it again — and added to it. You cannot edit a prophet with a fire.