Giesebrecht and Volz deny vv. 23–26 to Jeremiah, because they hold that Jeremiah only envisages judgements which are historically caused. He does not speak the language of apocalyptic and this passage, because it contains such vocabulary, betrays its lateness. But this may be a misjudgement of the intention of the portrayal in vv. 23–26. The antithesis between particular and universal, or historical and cosmic may be an over-simplification, since a prophet who is also a poet, and who is stretching