Imamat 24:19

24:19 If a man inflicts an injury on ¹  his fellow citizen, ²  just as he has done it must be done to him –

Yeremia 25:12

25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation ³  for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon ⁴  an everlasting ruin. ⁵  I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁶ 

[24:19]  ¹ tn Heb “gives a flaw in”; KJV, ASV “cause a blemish in.”

[24:19]  ² tn Or “neighbor” (so NAB, NASB, NIV); TEV, NLT “another person.”

[25:12]  ³ tn Heb “that nation.”

[25:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”

[25:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, oracle of the Lord, their iniquity even upon the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it everlasting ruins.” The sentence has been restructured to avoid ambiguity and to conform the style more to contemporary English.

[25:12]  sn Compare Isa 13:19-22 and Jer 50:39-40.

[25:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”