Book of Jeremiah 36-52, Lamentations 1-5

Baruch shows up again and starts to do actual things.  Such as act very much like Aaron to Jeremiah's Moses.

Jeremiah utters, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants, or the people, that you have put me in prison?"  Then a little later, it's said of him, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in the city, and the hands of all the people by speaking such words to them.  For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."  Sounds a lot like Jesus foreshadowing to me.

Jeremiah is then thrown into the pit.  It's Ebedmelech the Ethiopian who gets him out.

The further Jesus analogy in this scenario is Nebuchadnezzar in the Pontius Pilate role.  In fact, the whole depiction of Pilate could very well have been drawn from Book of Jeremiah.  As historians are increasingly quick to note, the real Pilate would never even have thought twice about executing Jesus.

I have a correction to make about the earlier reference to "queen of heaven."  Now I'm interpreting to have always been an Egyptian reference, likely to Isis.  Egypt is prominent in Jeremiah.

In the litany of terrors against nations that helps comprise Book of Jeremiah (it seems obvious that several separate works were at some point combined), there's the suggestion that the conclusion of the Esau legacy is finally reached.  You'll remember that although Jacob's brother did actually get to enjoy prosperity through the generations his adventures disappear from the Bible soon after.

The variations of this book from earlier biblical record continue: the end of the Babylonian exile is far less mutual and more like rats fleeing a sinking ship, with Babylon meeting the same sorry fate as other nations in the litany of doom and woe.  I'd suggest that it seems obvious some or all of this was written well after the fact, even there's at least one line ("Thus far are the words of Jeremiah") that would try and suggest otherwise.  Most of the books of the Bible probably didn't exist in direct awareness of each other much less reflect a lot of direct record.  It's hard enough to authenticate such things in the New Testament.

Sodom and Gomorrah, however, are clearly part of the tradition everyone knows at least by name (some suggestions made here indicate varying reasons never actually given as to why they were so famously smited), as they are referenced several times in Book of Jeremiah.

I imagine one way or another that this is not a favorite book of Iraqis.  Although funny enough, and maybe I said this already, but Abraham's ziggurat is in Iraq.

It ends funny, though.  Jeremiah abruptly disappears (to say nothing of an earlier and random sequence involving a bloody warrior named Ishmael).  It rewinds back to the very start of the Babylonian saga, right after having apparently closed the book of Babylon itself.

Lamentations, traditionally ascribed to Jeremiah but clearly not by him, is a, well, poetic lament about the destruction of Jerusalem, and even a moment of religious doubt (which suggests people generally did believe what they were supposed to believe with or without Jeremiah), some lines of general woe concerning the exile era.