Freeing the Burden of Prophecy 343 minantly the speech of the prophet, although the speech of YHWH is mixed in with this. Some texts contain specially highlighted citations of a revelation or plan of YHWH which are particularly bound up in the process of connecting YHWH’s acts and/or intentions with their manifestation in the human sphere. The addressee of the text is never YHWH or the prophet, but rather the entity which is the topic or the prophet’s own community. Texts are comprised of descriptive (report or announcement) and/or ordering (command or prohibition) genres. One group of eleven texts contains both descriptive and ordering and follows a pattern wherein the descriptive sections include reports and the descriptive materials motivate the ordering sections of the text. A second group of six texts contains only descriptive genres with announcements predominating. Taking both groups together, 75% of the time a YHWH act is given with its human result. In the other texts the same connection is made but less explicitly. The commands fall into two groups according to the speaker with a smaller group not spoken by the prophet, but by YHWH (one narratological level removed from the direct address to the readers) and with a larger group spoken by the prophet (on the primary narratological level to the readers). These commands fall into two subgroups: summons (jubilation or communal lamentation) and commands for a variety of concrete human actions. Building on this formal analysis, Weis proceeds to Intention. He observes that the formal aspects “seem to point to a tendency to connect YHWH’s acts and/or intentions (sometimes as communicated in a particular revelation) with events in the human sphere either for the purpose of providing direction (commands) or insight (announcements of future)” (17). Weis notes that seven texts (Isa 13; 14,29; 15; 21; 23; Nah 1; Zech 9–11) instruct the audience in certain behavior through commands and/or prohibitions that are based on an explication of the way that some expression of the divine will or some act of YHWH manifests itself in human affairs. Two other texts (Isa 22; Mal 1–3) follow this pattern though not as explicitly. Five texts (Isa 19; 21; Ezek 12; Hab 1; Zech 12–14) do not give explicit instructions to the addressees, but explain certain events in human affairs as a manifestation of YHWH’s intention, declaration, or act(s) or expound how YHWH’s intention, declaration or act(s) will be manifested in human affairs. This leads (17) Ibid., 227.