Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet, and with good reason

But amid the doom, he found room for hope

This image of Jeremiah is from Michaelangelo's work at the Sistine Chapel and is in the public domain.

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…