076. Prayer Of The Prophet Jeremiah.

Prayer Of The Prophet Jeremiah. The Prayer as recorded.—Jeremiah 1:4-6. The Lord’s Answer.—Jeremiah 1:7-10.

Jeremiah was one of the chief of the Hebrew prophets, the son of Hilkiah, and of the sacerdotal race. When he was called to prophecy by the Lord, Jerusalem was in a distressed condition, and being very young, he seems afraid to undertake the great work before him—a feeling clearly expressed by his prayer. But he was the “chosen of the Lord,” and through the long period of forty-two years, was a faithful and devoted servant—in the midst of severe persecution faithful in prayer and in denouncing God’s judgments upon his guilty nation and the devoted city of Jerusalem. It is the opinion of many Bible students that he finally died a martyr to the cause to which his life had been devoted.