Sometimes, we look around and think that the world is in a bad way. We may look around us and ask, ‘has the world ever been as bad as this?’. Killing, hatred, division, poverty seem rife everywhere we look and it can be easy to get depressed. It can seem like there is nowhere to turn for relief. There is, however, nothing new about these feelings, or even the situations that cause us to feel this way. The people of God, during the time of Jeremiah, had been through a lot. The