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A Mouth Full of Fire: The Word of God in the Words of Jeremiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I am putting my words as a fire in your mouth; these people are tinder and it will consume them” (Jeremiah 5:14). In the book of Jeremiah, not only is the vocabulary of “word” and “words” uniquely prevalent, but formulae marking divine speech also play an unprecedented role in giving the book’s final form its narrative and theological shape. Indeed, “the word of the Lord” is arguably the main...

The word is heard, the words are spoken or written. But the word that is heard is not less than the words that are spoken. It comes to the prophet in words, not as a vague impression or mystical enlightenment. The word heard is not less than the words spoken, but perhaps it is more. We do not know exactly what Jeremiah experienced when he received the word of the LORD, but we do know what the people experienced when they received the word of the LORD from Jeremiah. It was not just words they heard,
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