Against Jeremiah's Lament

A note

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.（雅歌 1:14-17）

• How I finally made peace with a passage I avoided for years.
• Written out of a failed attempt to explain this passage to a child.
• An attempt to read a famous passage all the way through without lifting it out of context.
• Notes from reading a canonical and a non-canonical text next to each other.

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.

（ヨハネによる福音書 第12章）

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.