Day 233: the Promised Messiah

Here’s something new. Prophecies of future hope have so far only been about restoring Israel. Today is the first mention of the Messiah. (Unless you count Isaiah’s servant songs which I think we read too soon.)
Jeremiah buys a field
Jeremiah 32:6-15
Jeremiah’s prayer
Jeremiah 32:16-25
The Lord’s answer
Jeremiah 32:26-35
The Lord’s promise
Jeremiah 32:36-44
The restoration of the Jews
Jeremiah 33:1-13
The promised Messiah
Jeremiah 33:14-26
A message for Zedekiah
Jeremiah 34:1-7
Jeremiah in the well
Jeremiah 38:1-13

Jeremiah promises that the newly restored people will also have a desire to worship God rightly - promising an end to the cycle of sin and repentance that has been going on, basically, ever since Moses led them out of Egypt. Chapter 33 contains God’s best promises yet that he has not abandoned his people.
But many people can’t see past the thought that Jeremiah  is preaching treason, and they decide that prison isn’t good enough for him, and drop him down a well. One friend of his, Ebed-Melech, persuades the king to rescue him and returned to confinement on the courtyard.
Zedekiah shows no leadership whatever - anything his courtiers ask him to do, he agrees with. He’s lost the will to live, but can’t hear Jeremiah’s message of hope