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Here are pleading, promising, commanding, and threatening—different language games but all bearing a family resemblance that permits their being gathered into a coherent effort of argument and persuasion. One musters impassioned argument (one combines plea, promise, command, and threat) when something of utmost value and importance is at stake. What is at stake, it will become evident, is the 'self, the self of Jeremiah, the many selves of Judah and Jerusalem, and ultimately the selves of the book's readers.
And the distinction is useful for seeing how w. 19c-21 relate to v. 22. But apart from these purposes the meanings remain coterminous: they are ra'd. Much has already been said of v. 19 in the course of the contextual analysis, which is now complete. It remains only to confirm and elaborate these views by an internal analysis of the verse. The opening words, a double exclamation, me'ay me'ay ('my innards! '), attest the depth of the emotions that grip the prophet. They attest as well the peculiar resemblances (and the potential confusion) between the language game of emotion behavior and that of physiological sensation or malady.
14. The conformity of language in our verse to the paradigms is not insignificant. As with the identity of Abraham, whose obedience was the definitive manifestation of his telos, so the identity of Jeremiah's audience (whose obedience is precisely what is at issue) is here grammatically and conceptually connected with the overarching purpose of God in history. To have Yhwh as one's telos is to adopt his purpose as one's own, and to gain one's identity thereby. As with v. 2, the meaningfulness of v.