THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - WALTER BRUEGGEMANN

Jeremiah and Second Isaiah taken together, poets of pathos and amazement, speak in laments and doxologies.  They cannot be torn from each other.  Reading Jeremiah alone leaves faith in death where God finally will not stay.  And reading Second Isaiah alone leads us to imagine that we may receive comfort without tears and tearing.  Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs.

Walter Brueggemann - The Prophetic Imagination, 2d ed.