Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet, and with good reason
But amid the doom, he found room for hope
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Jeremiah has been called the weeping prophet of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament and it's easy to see why: Of the longer prophetic books, Jeremiah's is easily the dreariest. His denunciations of Judah (the southern kingdom) and Jerusalem along with his…