Traditionally, Jeremiah is thought of as a book of judgment, doom and destruction. But the message Jeremiah prophecies describe a God who will never give up on those he has called to be his people – a God of love, grace and justice.

While Lamentations documents a distressing and dark age for the Israelites, it too provides rays of hope and grace through the grief of a nation. Hetty Lalleman gives us an informative and fascinating commentary on these two books, offering today’s readers a glimpse of the past and the new beginning, new covenant and new hope the prophets foretell.

The Tyndale Bible Commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. Inside these commentaries are:

• A concise but thorough introduction to each book dealing with its authorship, date, original setting and purpose.
• A structural analysis
• Section-by-section exegesis, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation.
• Additional Notes providing wider discussion of particular difficulties.

The aim throughout is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain. These new editions have been given a new global branding, a large and vibrant paperback format for better value and easier-on-the-eye font and layout.

About the Author

Hetty Lalleman is tutor in Old Testament studies at Spurgeon's College, London. She is the author of ‘Celebrating the Law? Rethinking Old Testament Ethics’, and is on the advisory board for an Old Testament commentary series in Dutch, to which she has contributed a volume on Jeremiah. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled ‘Jeremiah in Prophetic Tradition’.