Waiting is profoundly difficult; all the more so when you know the one you are waiting one is capable of acting immediately. Yet this is God's call to exiled Israel - to wait upon the Lord for the day of salvation (in this case release from captivity).
But this waiting is not to be passive - to wait around, biding time... Rather, the people of God are called to make a home, indeed to work for the welfare of their captors (a profound foreshadowing of Jesus' call to "love your enemies"). Israe...
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