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Of the Major Prophets, Jeremiah is perhaps the least straightforward. It is variously comprised of stories about the prophet Jeremiah, exchanges between Jeremiah and Yahweh, and messages directly from Yahweh—meaning a consciousness of form is essential to the understanding of its content. At times it is written in poetry, resembling Isaiah, while at other times it is written in prose, more...

also implies a reaction in the realm of feelings, here suggested by a physical action; beating one’s chest might be another equivalent. Ephraim continues to spell out the nature of the change he claims when he recognizes the reality of shame and disgrace and of the reproach that has been hurled at him without him taking any notice. He is not now just shrugging his shoulders at a narrow-minded prophet like Jeremiah. He knows that reproach goes back to the beginning of his story, as Jer 2–3 again suggests.
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