number of ways yet not traumatize them, but for most people, trauma inflicts wounds without words. Such wounds are often called today by the awkward title “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD). Although I do not use this odd collection of adjectives and nouns, and I also avoid medical models of individual recovery related to PTSD, the study of individual trauma—and its next of kin, disaster—helps show how violence afflicts people and, in my work, how the book of Jeremiah addresses these wounds.