suggest a different way to understand the poetry. The fact that God’s rape of Zion is outrageous, unbearable, and unspeakable is surely the point of the imagery. To be invaded by another country, to be victims of attack, occupation, and dislocation is outrageous, unbearable, and unspeakable. God’s rape of Wife Judah tells the people’s story and brings to speech the horror and harm of Babylonian assaults. Rape is a language for telling Judah’s memories and its experience of God.