The popular notion of Jeremy (otherwise known as Jeremias) is that of a gaunt, sorrow-seared figure thundering the wrath of God through the desolate ruins of Jerusalem. He is the prophet of grief, his message and his life full of warning and a submission that in its vehemence seems to be despair. Perhaps it is because the only quotation from his teachings used in the New Testament is: ‘A voice was heard on high of lamentation, of great mourning and weeping, of Eachel keeping for her children and refusing to be comforted for them for they are not'. ‘Refusing to be comforted'; Jeremy would allow no mitigation. In days of great violence he was a compelling character, he would not suffer his burning message to be quenched by the evil of those who were called the chosen of God.