there is no debate about the first-person question “What shall I cry?,” but only about the opening wĕʾāmar, pointed as a waw-conjunctive qal third masc. sg., “and X said” (MT). The objection, whoever is raising it, is familiar from other prophetic call accounts (viz., Isa 6:5 and Jer 1:5) and runs through v. 7. With a majority of commentators, we read v. 8 as a rejoinder from the voice which gave the initial charge in v. 6.20 He takes up the previous words of objection and rejoins: “The grass withers,