Excerpt from Jeremiah in Modern Speech Of all the fascinating personalities that crowd the pages of the Old Testament, none surpasses Jeremiah in sheer' intensity of human interest. He has been called the prophet of the inner struggle. In him more vividly than in any other do we see the conflict of the human will with the divine - the natural longing of an acutely sensitive spirit to escape from a task so stem and terrible, and the irresistible impulse to undertake it for his God and his country's sake. The word which he would fain have hidden in his heart he felt to be a burning fire shut up in his bones and, it had to leap forth into speech of flame (xx. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.