God calls Jeremiah
God called young Jeremiah, a priest's son from Anathoth, to be a prophet to the nations; he would warn Judah for forty years and see Jerusalem fall.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5 (World English Bible)
Jeremiah protested that he was only a youth. God touched his mouth and put his words there. Jeremiah's message was hard: repent, or Babylon will destroy the city. He was mocked, beaten, imprisoned, and thrown into a muddy cistern, but he never stopped.
He is often called the weeping prophet, and Lamentations is traditionally attributed to him.
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Dating notes
Josiah's 13th year (Jeremiah 1:2), 629 BC. Zephaniah also prophesied during Josiah's reign (Zephaniah 1:1).