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Jeremiah and Lamentations: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the ancient Near East in a state of ferment and the nation of Judah experiencing a succession of political crises, God stationed a man on the scene to speak the divine word. Jeremiah was called by God to the unhappy task of telling an unheeding nation it was going to be judged and destroyed. Often he seemed to despair, yet he continued to utter God’s truth fearlessly, leaving as part of his...

values are to be maintained, they have to be augmented continually. But God is much more than supreme Value; he is Love (cf. 1 John 4:8, 16). The unchanging constancy of God furnishes a firm ground for the tentative outreachings of hope for the future. After the first clause of this verse (22) MT reads, ‘We have not perished’ (RV We are not consumed), implying that this is a result of the steadfast love of God towards his people. But for MT tāmnû, RSV, following the Peshitta and Targum, has read
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