of possibility serves to generate energy and courage to imagine and enact a future that the empire has sought to void. The poetry speaks in YHWH's voice in order to demonstrate that YHWH is the definitive player in Israel's future. Without the agency of YHWH (given in poetic imagination), there is no possibility of outflanking the ideological grip of the empire. The tradition of Jeremiah goes deepest into the heart of YHWH, there to disclose YHWH's resolve and anguish and wounded fidelity that become the ground for the future of Israel.
