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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...

inheritance and yours is the redemption. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.’ (Jer. 32:6–8) What do we make of this? We should immediately exclude the possibility that God’s prediction was wrong or, to put it more harshly, that God did not tell the exact truth about what Hanamel would say. A second possibility is that God did not actually use those precise words to Jeremiah, or that Hanamel did not use those precise words in his speech, and that Jeremiah or his scribe
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