volume 1, issue 1, 2009, pages 21-31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsIKTT4184
Published online: 2009-06-01
Published in print: 2009-06-30

Abstract: The intention of this article was to present the connections between the themes of judgement and suffering in different layers of the Book of the prophet Jeremiah. We have acquired various evidences of a connection between the suffering and judgment, which marked the whole Jeremiah’s work. It was stated that Jeremiah’s suffering has through his Confessions become a part of his message. In the Confessions, we also observed features of the events of sending and waiting for a judgement. On the basis of several literary and thematic coincidences we were able to examine some common motives of the Confessions of Jeremiah and of the Ebed Yahweh songs. We attempted to indicate the moment of overcoming the limits of Jeremiah’s suffering in the Ebed Yahweh songs, in which the idea of the substitutionary suffering is already evident.