jeremiads—that is to say, it is Jeremiah in particular, more than any other of the prophets, whose voice seems at times to be resumed and amplified in the voice of Christ. And just as Jeremiah—specifically in chapters 7, 19, and 31 to 32 of his book—invoked the language of divine judgment and of “the Gehenna” to prophesy the imminent destruction of Jerusalem, followed by its divine restoration and preservation “unto the Age” (31:40), so also Jesus warns in the gospels of a ruin every bit as imminent and as terrible as the one Jeremiah foresaw, also succeeded by a mysterious restoration.
