jeremiad

[From Jeremia (h) (q. v), and jeropigia taking Jeremiah with them. Tradition says that he was put to death in Egypt for preaching against idolatry. He wrote two Old Testament books, the prophecies of Jeremiah and the Lamentations. Many rationalistic critics attribute to him also the book of Deuteronomy. The Prophecies of Jeremiah: Script. Canon: One of the Canonical books of the Old Testament, the second of the greater prophets. The several predictions are not in chronological order, though it is believed by some critics that an arrangement of another character is discernible. A certain plaintive air runs through the book, deepening as the trials of the seer increase. There is not the same energy or rhythm as in Isaiah. There are resemblances in the language to that of Deuteronomy-Aramaic expre ions abound in the work. The concluding chapter, an historical one, is evidently from another hand-the Hebrew and Septuagint differ considerably. Jeremiah xxx i. is quoted in the New Testament in Matt. ii. 18, and Jer. xxx i. 31-34 in Heb. viii. 8-12. The quotation from Jeremy the prophet in Matt. xxvii. 9 is now found only in Zech. xi. 12, 13.