The answer is not a justification of God's ways, nor a direct rebuke of the prophet's weakness and despair, nor an explanation or application of wh…

Go, return. —The charge indirectly conveys a double rebuke.

His cry of disappointment, Lord ... I am not better than my…

For the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with th…

And the Lord said unto him, go, return on your way to the
wilderness of Damascus
He i…

God repeated the question, What doest thou here? Then he complained of his discouragement; and where should God's prophets go with their c…