GOD WE CONFESS OUR WICKEDNESS TO YOU

By Fr. Felix (African Times Guest Writer)

The reading is one of several pieces from

Jeremiah threatening the disaster which was to

come upon Judah and Jerusalem; they are

gathered together in a series, and one can

imagine Jeremiah pronouncing them, time after

time in various circumstances.

A previous piece has just described a

disastrous drought in which even the donkey

gasp for air from lack of pasture; this may be a

metaphor for the military destruction.

Now the blow seems to be in the form of a

slaughter as well, corpses littering the

countryside.

Then the lament merges into a confession of

guilt and a prayer that this LORD will not

himself break the covenant by dishonouring

Jerusalem, the throne of his glory.

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