comes not only from the major prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah but also from the minor prophets such as Habakkuk, Zechariah, Micah, Joel, and Hosea. Each of these prophets understands the fruitlessness of the law to amend their people’s shattered existences. Each of them is forced into the corner of speaking grace, the complete book of new beginnings in the light of pathos and repentance. Their message, again and again, is heard by a remnant of the people. The Psalms, too, and sections of what we