“I Will Turn Their Mourning into Joy”

Day 1 · I Will Write It in Their Hearts

1. The new covenant: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their ____.”
2. Under this new covenant, who will know the Lord, according to Jeremiah 31?
3. What does the Lord promise regarding former sins under this new covenant?
4. Jeremiah 31 compares Israel's gathering to what kind of joyful scene?
5. What does the Lord compare His covenant with Israel to, promising its permanence in Jeremiah 31?

Day 2 · Call Unto Me

1. “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and ____ things, which thou knowest not.”
2. Why did Jeremiah buy a field in Anathoth while Jerusalem was under siege?
3. What does Jeremiah declare of the Lord in his prayer in chapter 32?
4. What title does Jeremiah 33 give to the coming Messiah, the righteous ruler from David's line?
5. What promise does Jeremiah 33 give regarding David's throne?

Day 3 · The Word Cannot Be Burned

1. What did King Jehoiakim do with the scroll of Jeremiah's prophecies as it was read to him?
2. Who first wrote down Jeremiah's spoken prophecies onto the scroll?
3. What did the Lord command after the first scroll was burned?
4. What happened to the second scroll compared to the first, according to Jeremiah 36?
5. What warning did the Lord pronounce on Jehoiakim for burning the scroll?

Day 4 · Pulled Up Out of the Dungeon

1. Why was Jeremiah cast into a miry dungeon?
2. Who pulled Jeremiah out of the miry dungeon with cords and old rags?
3. What did Ebed-melech use to cushion the cords under Jeremiah's arms?
4. What did the Lord later promise Ebed-melech for his courage?
5. What did King Zedekiah secretly ask Jeremiah, even while keeping him imprisoned?

Day 5 · New Every Morning

1. How does Lamentations 1 open, describing fallen Jerusalem?
2. What does Lamentations 3 say of the Lord's mercies, even amid such deep sorrow?
3. “They are new every ____: great is thy faithfulness.”
4. What does the writer of Lamentations 3 say is good to do, even in affliction?
5. What does Lamentations 3 say the Lord does not do forever?

Day 6 · A Law Written in the Heart

1. Jeremiah prophesied of a “new covenant” in which the Lord would write His law “in their hearts,” rather than simply on tablets of stone. What does this teach about true gospel living?
2. Jeremiah foretold a new covenant in which the Lord would “write [his law] in their hearts.” What does this teach about the gospel's power?
3. Even amid the sorrow of Lamentations, Jeremiah affirms, “his compassions fail not. They are new every morning.” What can we hold onto in hard times?

Day 7 · “Covenants”

1. President Russell M. Nelson taught that when we realize we are children of the covenant, we know what?
2. President Nelson taught that when we realize we are “children of the covenant,” we come to know what?
3. Through the story of Sister Efimov, sealed to her husband before his early death, President Nelson testified that temple covenants do what?