[HarleyD]

The book of Jeremiah is out of chronological order. But if memory serves me correctly, this was right before the people were carried off into captivity due to the judgment of God.

[OneVike]

The book of Jeremiah is out of chronological order. But if memory serves me correctly, this was right before the people were carried off into captivity due to the judgment of God.

Yes you are correct. It is out of chronological order because when the Bible was arranged, they put the section of prophets in order of the size of their books, not the importance of their message and not in the order they were written.

Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet because he spent his life warning the Southern Kingdom of their impending doom. Then he left for Egypt in tears as Nebuchadnezzar's army sacked Jerusalem, destroyed Solomon's Temple, and carried away the people to Babylon.

He wrote Lamentations as memorial to Jerusalem as he describes the funeral of the city. A tear stained portrait of the once proud Jerusalem, now reduced to rubble by the invading Babylonian hordes.

Lamentations is what gave him the title, "The Weeping Prophet".