PART 3: Jeremiah’s Intensive Use — The Prophet of Anguish.
Isaiah showed us how the metaphor could describe judgment on Gentile nations (Babylon), personal prophetic anguish, Israel’s own suffering, and finally the miraculous birth of the new Jerusalem.
Now we turn to Jeremiah, who saturates his prophecy with birth imagery to an extent unmatched by any other prophet. If Isaiah introduced the metaphor, Jeremiah made it his signature.
PART 3 of The Woman in Travail: How Birth…
PART 3: Jeremiah’s Intensive Use — The Prophet of Anguish. Isaiah showed us how the metaphor could describe judgment on Gentile nations (Babylon), personal prophetic anguish, Israel’s own suffering, and finally the miraculous birth of the new Jerusalem. Now we turn to Jeremiah, who saturates his prophecy with birth imagery to an extent unmatched by any other prophet. If Isaiah introduced the metaphor, Jeremiah made it his signature.