An oracle in the book of Jeremiah is particularly visceral in its description of the intense emotions experienced by Yahweh. Dated to the early sixth century BCE, its setting is the Babylonian attack on Jerusalem and the destruction of the city’s temple complex – described in traditional language as the ‘tents’ and ‘curtains’ of the deity (Jeremiah 4.19–20; cf. 8.18–22; 9.1–3, 10–11, 18–19; 14.31–32). Here, I follow J. J. M. Roberts, ‘The Motif of the Weeping God in Jeremiah and Its Background in the Lament Tradition of the Ancient Near East’, in Old Testament Essays 5(3), 1992, pp. 361–4. Further support for the view that Yahweh is speaking in Jeremiah 4.19–22 can be found in K. M. O’Connor, ‘The Tears of God and the Divine Character in Jeremiah 2–9’, in Timothy Beal and Todd Linafelt (eds.), God in the Fray: A Tribute to Walter Brueggemann (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1998), pp. 172–85; cf. David A. Bosworth, ‘The Tears of God in the Book of Jeremiah’, in Biblica 94(1), 2013, pp. 24–46. But in the Bible, Yahweh’s internal organs regularly manifest his shifting emotions. When freighted with grief, his heart sickens; when he mournfully sanctions the destruction of Moab, his innards groan and tremble; when he is moved to compassion for his beloved worshippers, his guts sonorously rumble. See, for example, the sensory dynamics expressed in Isaiah 16.11; 42.14; Jeremiah 8.18; 31.20.