Emphasis Preaching Journal
Sermon Illustrations for Proper 23 | OT 28 (2019)
Illustration
Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7
There's an intense bitterness to the ending of Psalm 137, the lament over the destruction of Jerusalem and Temple and the loss of land and identity in exile. At the end of that psalm, with its evocative phrases calling to mind the heartfelt grief of those wrenched from their homes, that God would see to it that the infants of their tormentors would be dashed to death against the rocks.
There's an intense bitterness to the ending of Psalm 137, the lament over the destruction of Jerusalem and Temple and the loss of land and identity in exile. At the end of that psalm, with its evocative phrases calling to mind the heartfelt grief of those wrenched from their homes, that God would see to it that the infants of their tormentors would be dashed to death against the rocks.
