The high point of Jeremiah’s prophecy is chapters 30–33. Scholars call this “the Book of Consolation” because God reveals to his people in these chapters his final response to their sinfulness, and it is not what they deserve. Expecting judgment, he surprises them with comfort. Why? Because he had pulled them into his heart, and they cannot sin their way out of it. “I have loved you with an everlasting love,” he assures them (Jer. 31:3).
