A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming (Biblia.com)

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Jeremiah’s poignant lament over Judah’s social and religious disintegration reflects God’s own pathos-laden yearning for his disobedient covenant people. In this widely praised expository commentary Walter Brueggemann, one of the premier Old Testament scholars of our time, explores the historical setting and message of Jeremiah as well as the text’s relevance for the church today. Offering a...

This chapter contains some of the most poignant and richly imaged poetry of Jeremiah. It is marked by only two major speech formularies (vv. 1–2a, 4–5a), and the structure of the poetry is not easy to determine. Despite these stylistic difficulties, the intent of the poetry seems clear enough. The poetry is an assault on Judah’s imagination, requiring Judah to see its actual situation differently, to understand the causes of that situation and its inevitable outcome. The

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