Footnotes

^5. I’m now thinking of these rats trying to put their lives back together; perhaps in a therapy session of tested rats, all with burned little feet, drinking coffee, huddled in the conference room of a community center and talking about how empty a life of chasing pleasure is: “Hi my name is Steven, I’ve been off electric shock for three days now . . .”

^6. For helpful discussion of the seventy years, see J. Daniel Hays, Jeremiah and Lamentations, Teach the Text Commentary Series (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2016), 184.

^7. This story within the story could stand alone but seems tied thematically with the fall of Jerusalem.

^8. The outline for this chapter is taken from Wright, Message of Jeremiah, 395–407.