The Letter of Jeremiah: A Warning Against Idols. The Letter of Jeremiah is a short book that many Protestants have never read because it’s not in most modern Protestant Bibles. Yet it was part of the Bible of the early church, included in the Septuagint and found in early Christian manuscripts right alongside Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Baruch.

Book of Jeremiah Summary: The Weeping Prophet and the Promise of a New Covenant. The Book of Jeremiah is one of the most sobering prophetic works in Scripture. Jeremiah, often called the “weeping prophet,” ministered during the final decades before Judah’s fall to Babylon (late 7th–early 6th century BC). His calling came in 627 BC, in the thirteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, and stretched through the reigns of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah until Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BC.