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At the beginning (2\u20139) and end of this chapter (19\u201322), the community uses prayer to confront God. Both of their prayers contain outright confessions: “We have sinned against You” (7, 20). Despite these explicit statements, however, the nation’s “Why”- questions to God pull the prayers’ tone away from submissively admitting wrongdoing (8, 9, 19). With these questions, the nation accuses God for its current adversity.\u00a0 By asking, “Why have You smitten us so that there is no cure?” (19), the nation names God as the source of its problems. Its question, “Why are You . . . like a warrior who cannot give victory?” (9), points out God’s dereliction of duty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of saving the people, God has become their adversary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In verse 21, the nation employs two arguments to convince God to act on their behalf. They begin by invoking God’s reputation: “For Your name’s sake, do not disown us; Do not dishonor Your glorious throne.”\u00a0 God’s inaction would stain God’s “name” and “throne.” They conclude with a legal argument: “Remember, do not annul Your covenant with us.” The covenant legally binds God to the nation; a deal is a deal.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their rhetoric, the prayers recall Moses’s advocacy on behalf of the Israelites after the incident of the Golden Calf (Exodus 32:11\u201313). Moses, too, asks an accusatory “Why” question: “Why should (NJPS: let not) Your anger, O Lord, blaze forth against Your people?” (Exodus 32:11). And Moses makes the very same arguments that the nation does. He reminds God of the public relations disaster that would ensue should God opt to destroy the nation: “Why should (NJPS: let not) the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent the He delivered them, only to kill them off in the mountains?” (Exodus 32:12). Moses, like the nation, concludes his prayer with a reminder of the covenant: “Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how You swore to them by Your Self . . .” (Exodus 32:13).<\/span><\/p>\n

By Jeremiah’s time, however, the wilderness strategies of self-advocacy have begun to show signs of age. Unlike in Exodus 32:14, where God “relents,” here, God explicitly rejects the prayer. God has grown wise to the prophetic penchant for prayer; God forbids Jeremiah from “pulling a Moses” by praying on the nation’s behalf (11; compare 15:1). Jeremiah’s own protest– Ah, Lord God!” (Jeremiah 14:13) falls on deaf divine ears.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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