I will restore health to you and your wounds I will heal, says the Lord. (30:17) Incurable hurt; no healing available—I will restore health, I will heal! God can do; God will do, what is humanly impossible. He acts in virtue of his infinite love. The remarkable fluctuation we have observed in the prophets can be documented over and over. It is not a rarity; it is the norm. And the flow is always in the same direction: threat is followed by words of hope and salvation. The pattern surely means that
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