What the October 19–November 1 lessons cover in Jeremiah and Lamentations, what’s in the chapters they don’t assign, and where to start reading
The Rest of the Book · CFM-07 and CFM-08 · Jeremiah and Lamentations · October 19–November 1, 2026
Why the manual picks, and what this series adds
Come, Follow Me is home-centered and Church-supported. Families do the reading at home, and Sunday class supports them.
Class time is short. Sunday School meets for fifty minutes every other Sunday, and in my own class I get about twenty-five minutes of real teaching. Nobody can teach a whole book in that. So the manual picks, and for a course that covers the entire Old Testament in one year, that’s a fair choice.
We’re not on that clock. So this series gives families more support to go deeper, if they choose to. Each week it shows what the manual picked, what’s in the rest of the book, and where to start reading.
The numbers
Jeremiah gets two weeks this year.
| Assigned | Whole book | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 15 chapters (1–3, 7, 16–18, 20; 31–33, 36–39) · 413 verses | 52 chapters · 1,364 verses | 30% |
| Lamentations | 2 chapters (1, 3) · 88 verses | 5 chapters · 154 verses | 57% |
What the two lessons cover
- Prophets are called to speak God’s word (1:4–19; 7:1–7; 20:8–9)
- “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee” (1:5)
- The fountain of living waters, and the broken cisterns (2:13)
- The Lord will gather His people, with fishers and hunters (3:14–18; 16:14–21)
Week two (October 26–November 1)
- The Lord brings His people out of captivity, and the new covenant written in the heart (31; 33)
- The scriptures turn us from evil (36)
- Follow the prophet: King Zedekiah, who wouldn’t, and Ebed-melech, who stood up for Jeremiah (37–39)
- The Lord relieves the sorrow that sin brings (Lamentations 1; 3)
The Scripture Helps pages add the background: the temple called “a den of robbers” (7:11), the leaders who threw Jeremiah into the cistern, and Mulek’s escape to the land that becomes Zarahemla.
The rest of the book
| Chapters | What’s there |
|---|---|
| 4–6 | “Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls” (6:16). And the false comfort: “Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (6:14). |
| 8–10 | “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?” (8:22). “Let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me” (9:24). |
| 11–15 | The linen girdle buried by the Euphrates (13). “Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart” (15:16). |
| 19 | The potter’s jar, broken “that cannot be made whole again” (19:11). The assigned chapter 18 shows the clay that can still be reshaped. Read the two together. |
| 21–25 | The promised King: “this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (23:6). The seventy years of captivity (25). |
| 26–29 | Jeremiah preaches at the temple and nearly dies for it: “the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die” (26:8). Then his letter to the exiles in Babylon: “seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives” (29:7). |
| 30 | The “book of consolation” begins: “they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them” (30:9). |
| 34–35 | A covenant to free the slaves, made in the temple and then broken (34). The Rechabites, who kept their father’s word for generations (35). |
| 40–45 | Jerusalem has fallen. The governor Gedaliah is murdered, and the survivors flee to Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them (41–43). |
| 46–51 | Jeremiah’s prophecies to the nations, ending with Babylon: “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul” (51:6). |
| 52 | The last word is mercy: the captive king Jehoiachin is “brought… forth out of prison” (52:31). |
| Lamentations 2; 4; 5 | The book ends in prayer: “Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old” (5:21). |
The one to read first
Jeremiah 29:13. “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah wrote it in a letter to people who had already lost everything and were living as captives in Babylon. He didn’t promise to bring them home that year. He told them where to find the Lord in the meantime.
The Hebrew word for search in that verse is darash, the same word Isaiah uses for searching the book of the Lord (Isaiah 34:16). The Savior gave the same command about Isaiah: “search these things diligently” (3 Nephi 23:1). Jeremiah adds the condition: with all your heart.
Ken Krogue is a co-founder of The Covenant Project and has been deeply searching Isaiah for more than ten years. He writes with two AI research partners, Orson (Claude) and Nathan (ChatGPT), and approves every word.
