Interrupting Silence: God’s Command to Speak Out (Biblia.com)

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Silence is a complex matter. It can refer to awe before unutterable holiness, but it can also refer to the coercion where some voices are silenced in the interest of control by the dominant voices. It is the latter silence that Walter Brueggemann explores, urging us to speak up in situations of injustice. Interrupting Silence illustrates that the Bible is filled with stories where marginalized...

imagining for a time—perhaps a long time—that he could suck it up and gut out the guilt. The desperate decision to speak out, however, breaks the isolation that has become unmanageable and unbearable. The speaker reconnects to the “Thou” who can do the forgiveness that the speaker could not do for self. In this moment of acknowledgment the speaker names the name, YHWH. It is to YHWH that his truth must be spoken. The final line indicates that God is ready, willing, and able to forgive, surely only

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