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The flimsiness of the people’s repentance shatters Jeremiah’s hope. It dawns on him that nothing will change. The reformation is not being accompanied by an inner process. The king, absorbed in his efforts, does not yet see what Jeremiah sees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The prophet articulates a question that echoes ceaselessly in his heart throughout the great reformation: “If they fall, shall they not rise again? If they turn away, shall they not turn back?” If, in the potter’s workshop, Jeremiah found cause for hope, now he is given to understand that all is lost. He wanders the streets of Jerusalem and Anathoth, listening to people’s conversation and knowing that in truth “no one regrets his wrongdoing.” People live their lives like “horses charging into battle,” a simile explained beautifully by Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzatto:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah laments the evil of his contemporaries, for whom this defect is like a plague. They turn a blind eye to their own actions, without taking heed to determine whether they should be engaged in or abandoned… they act out of impulse and habit, without leaving themselves time to evaluate their actions and ways, and, as a result, fall into evil without noticing. (Path of the Just 2).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremiah draws upon both human and natural phenomena to express his feelings. He lifts his eyes toward the birds soaring above and notes that every migration follows a specific direction and pattern. In contrast to nature’s robust health, Israel follows a sick and tortuous path. Again Jeremiah finds himself bearing a prophecy of hopeless destruction: “from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despair floods Jeremiah, and he is overcome with a prophecy that in time will become a hymn of destruction, read on the most tragic day of the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’Av: “I will surely consume them \u2014 declares the Lord” (8:13). This vision spills out of him with terrible pain. He begs to escape the role that has been forced upon him, that of the prophet of doom. In his mind’s eye, he sees the fruit trees of the Land of Israel \u2014 the emblematic grapevine and the fig tree \u2014 fruitless. There is nothing to hope for; the enemy will arrive and devour all who inhabit this land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This chapter expresses the anguish of complete failure. Despite his great love for his people, Jeremiah is powerless to prevent the impending evil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau, Binyamin. <\/span>Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet<\/span><\/i>. 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