Jeremiah’s second confession: Jer 15:10-21: complex relationships

Dec 17, 14 • characterisation, Complaint, Jeremiah • 1 Comment • Read More »

Continuing a series on The Confessions of Jeremiah, we’ll explore the second of these rich and complex texts Jer 15:10-21. Although I only have 5 minutes I hope I’ll give you material to spark several times that of study of the biblical text 😉 for it is out of such personal wrestling (sometimes like Jeremiah’s struggles with Yahweh) that we grow and learn from our Bible reading 🙂

 

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One Response to Jeremiah’s second confession: Jer 15:10-21: complex relationships

  1. Bob MacDonald says:
    December 20, 2014 at 5:57 am

    Thanks again Tim. This intercalation of the one and the many (oo I had better look up that word!) – anyway this merging / ambiguity of the one and the many is a feature in the Psalms (e.g. compare 42-43 singular with 44 plural) and clear also in the middle chapter of Lamentations. It is so important to point it out to our individualistic social structures – yet equally important to show to a collective structure that it has a voice in each of its members – and who will be its governor / judge?

    Blessings.

    PS – have you ever considered Isaiah 64:4(5) – I am curious as to why the REB folks translated it as they did (brief post here.