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The present article explores the rhetoric of suffering by examining the identity of “I,” “He,” and “We” in Lamentations 3 and Isaiah 53. It employs two biblical methods, literary criticism and intertextual criticism. The study first shows that both texts share a male figure, gebel in Lamentations 3 and suffering servant in Isaiah, who represents Israel as a whole and corresponds with a female figure of Zion-Jerusalem in its larger literary context. The “I/He” suffers the suffering because of the sin the whole community. Although he is a member of the community, he is separated from others as the one who is faithful to God and is waiting for salvation of God(Lam 3) and as the one who takes the sin of the community on his shoulder. He is bearing the suffering of the community. Yet, the there remains difference between the features of gebel in Lamentations 3 and servant in Isaiah 53. While the messianic feature is not fully reflected in the self-understanding of gebel in Lamentations 3,the servant is seen as a messianic figure in Isaiah 53. It also shows that salvation is brought through the confession of sin by “We,” the community. In Lamentations 3, the call for returning to God by “I” immediately evokes the community’s confession of sin. In Isaiah 53, the community confess their sin by seeing the suffering of the servant on behalf of them. The rhetoric of “I/He” and “We” in these texts demonstrates the importance of communal confession of the sin and collective responsibility to the suffering in the time of communal suffering.
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lamentations 3, Isaiah 53, gebel, salvation, suffering
