Yeremia 23:20

23:20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. ¹ 

In days to come ² 

you people will come to understand this clearly. ³ 

Yeremia 48:47

48:47 Yet in days to come

I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” ⁴ 

says the Lord. ⁵ 

The judgment against Moab ends here.

Yeremia 49:39

49:39 “Yet in days to come

I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” ⁶ 

says the Lord. ⁷ 

[23:20]  ¹ tn Heb “until he has done and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart.”

[23:20]  ² tn Heb “in the latter days.” However, as BDB 31 s.v. אַחֲרִית b suggests, the meaning of this idiom must be determined from the context. Sometimes it has remote, even eschatological, reference and other times it has more immediate reference as it does here and in Jer 30:23 where it refers to the coming days of Babylonian conquest and exile.

[23:20]  ³ tn The translation is intended to reflect a Hebrew construction where a noun functions as the object of a verb from the same root word (the Hebrew cognate accusative).

[48:47]  ⁴ tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[48:47]  ⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[49:39]  ⁶ tn See Jer 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[49:39]  sn See a similar note on the reversal of Moab’s fortunes in Jer 48:47 and compare also 46:26 for a future restoration of Egypt.

[49:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”