After some pretty long reads, it was nice to finish a book in just a couple of days! Welcome to book number 25, Lamentations. It does sound particularly melancholy, but it is no more so than Jeremiah, I wouldn't say! We don't know who wrote Lamentations, but we do know that it is comprised of [...]
Tag: Jesus
Jeremiah
Most surprisingly, I got on with Jeremiah a bit better than Isaiah! Jeremiah begins so beautifully. Upon hearing his call, Jeremiah says 'oh, but I don't know how to speak because I am just a youth!'. But God says 'don't say that Jeremiah! You will go where I send you and say what I tell [...]
Isaiah
It has been a long time since my last post in this series - three months in fact, which is shocking! Many apologies about that. The truth is... I just got bogged down in all the befuddling language, which is sometimes a bizarre mix of flowery and threatening. I didn't really get it. The autumn [...]
Song of Song
Considering we had a verse from this book of the Bible on the front of our wedding order of service, and considering that I did a reading from this book at a wedding I attended at the weekend, I don't know as much about it as I should! I know there's a lot of metaphor [...]