Second Sunday after Christmas Jeremiah 31:7-14

Preaching Commentary

In Israel’s tribal society, redemption was the act of a patriarch who put his own resources on the line to ransom a family member who had been driven to the margins of society by poverty, who had been seized by an enemy against whom he had no defense, who found themselves enslaved by the consequences of a faithless life. Redemption was the means by which a lost family member was restored to a place of security within the kinship circle.

—Sandra L. Richter [1]

A Word of Consolation

Our text falls within a subsection of Jeremiah known as the Book of Consolation. (