L'histoire de Jérémie se situe au temps de l'exil, en Perse. Ce châtiment est infligé au peuple qui a préféré servir des idoles plutôt que le vrai Dieu...

A U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton leading a plane sortie into North Vietnam was shot down and captured as a POW. For 8 years of his life, he was a prisoner at Hanoi Hilton where he and other POWs were tortured. In a press conference, being forced by the North Vietnamese to say he was being treated well he blinked out the letters TORTURE in Morse code.