Ulangan 30:9

30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ¹  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ²  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ³  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ⁴  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors,

Yeremia 1:10

1:10 Know for certain that ⁵  I hereby give you the authority to announce to nations and kingdoms that they will be ⁶  uprooted and torn down, destroyed and demolished, rebuilt and firmly planted.” ⁷ 

Amos 9:14-15

9:14 I will bring back my people, Israel; ⁸ 

they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble ⁹  and settle down. ¹⁰ 

They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; ¹¹ 

they will grow orchards ¹²  and eat the fruit they produce. ¹³ 

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ¹⁴  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

[30:9]  ¹ tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.

[30:9]  ² tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

[30:9]  ³ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

[30:9]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”

[1:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “See!” The Hebrew imperative of the verb used here (רָאָה, ra’ah) functions the same as the particle in v. 9. See the translator’s note there.

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “I appoint you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot….” The phrase refers to the Lord giving Jeremiah authority as a prophet to declare what he, the Lord, will do; it does not mean that Jeremiah himself will do these things. The expression involves a figure of speech where the subject of a declaration is stated instead of the declaration about it. Compare a similar use of the same figure in Gen 41:13.

[1:10]  ⁷ sn These three pairs represent the twofold nature of Jeremiah’s prophecies, prophecies of judgment and restoration. For the further programmatic use of these pairs for Jeremiah’s ministry see 18:7-10 and 31:27-28.

[9:14]  ⁸ tn This line can also be translated “I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel” and is a common idiom (e.g., Deut 30:3; Jer 30:3; Hos 6:11; Zeph 3:20). This rendering is followed by several modern English versions (e.g., NEB, NRSV, NJPS).

[9:14]  ⁹ tn Or “the ruined [or “desolate”] cities.”

[9:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “and live [in them].”

[9:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “drink their wine.”

[9:14]  ¹² tn Or “gardens.”

[9:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “eat their fruit.”

[9:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.