Yeremia 2:11
Konteks2:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods
(even though they are not really gods at all)?
But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, 1
for a god that cannot help them at all! 2
Yeremia 3:5
Konteks3:5 You will not always be angry with me, will you?
You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ 3
That is what you say,
but you continually do all the evil that you can.” 4
Yeremia 15:18
Konteks15:18 Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish?
Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound?
Will you let me down when I need you
like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?” 5
Yeremia 23:6
Konteks23:6 Under his rule 6 Judah will enjoy safety 7
and Israel will live in security. 8
This is the name he will go by:
‘The Lord has provided us with justice.’ 9
Yeremia 23:39
Konteks23:39 So 10 I will carry you far off 11 and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight. 12
Yeremia 29:2
Konteks29:2 He sent it after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials, 13 the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had been exiled from Jerusalem. 14
Yeremia 40:14
Konteks40:14 They said to him, “Are you at all aware 15 that King Baalis of Ammon has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to kill you?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam would not believe them.
Yeremia 43:3
Konteks43:3 But Baruch son of Neriah is stirring you up against us. 16 He wants to hand us over 17 to the Babylonians 18 so that they will kill us or carry us off into exile in Babylon.”
Yeremia 46:23
Konteks46:23 The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest.
But I, the Lord, affirm 19 that the enemy will cut them down.
For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts.
They will be too numerous to count. 20
[2:11] 1 tn Heb “have exchanged their glory [i.e., the God in whom they glory].” This is a case of a figure of speech where the attribute of a person or thing is put for the person or thing. Compare the common phrase in Isaiah, the Holy One of Israel, obviously referring to the
[2:11] 2 tn Heb “what cannot profit.” The verb is singular and the allusion is likely to Baal. See the translator’s note on 2:8 for the likely pun or wordplay.
[3:5] 3 tn Heb “Will he keep angry forever? Will he maintain [it] to the end?” The questions are rhetorical and expect a negative answer. The change to direct address in the English translation is intended to ease the problem of the rapid transition, common in Hebrew style (but not in English), from second person direct address in the preceding lines to third person indirect address in these two lines. See GKC 462 §144.p.
[3:5] 4 tn Heb “You do the evil and you are able.” This is an example of hendiadys, meaning “You do all the evil that you are able to do.”
[15:18] 5 tn Heb “Will you be to me like a deceptive (brook), like waters which do not last [or are not reliable].”
[15:18] sn Jeremiah is speaking of the stream beds or wadis which fill with water after the spring rains but often dry up in the summer time. A fuller picture is painted in Job 6:14-21. This contrasts with the earlier metaphor that God had used of himself in Jer 2:13.
[23:6] 6 tn Heb “In his days [= during the time he rules].”
[23:6] 7 tn Parallelism and context (cf. v. 4) suggest this nuance for the word often translated “be saved.” For this nuance elsewhere see Ps 119:117; Prov 28:18 for the verb (יָשַׁע [yasha’] in the Niphal); and Ps 12:6; Job 5:4, 11 for the related noun (יֶשַׁע, yesha’).
[23:6] 8 sn It should be noted that this brief oracle of deliverance implies the reunification of Israel and Judah under the future Davidic ruler. Jeremiah has already spoken about this reunification earlier in 3:18 and will have more to say about it in 30:3; 31:27, 31. This same ideal was espoused in the prophecies of Hosea (1:10-11 [2:1-2 HT]), Isaiah (11:1-4, 10-12), and Ezekiel (37:15-28) all of which have messianic and eschatological significance.
[23:6] 9 tn Heb “his name will be called ‘The
[23:6] sn The Hebrew word translated “justice” here is very broad in its usage, and it is hard to catch all the relevant nuances for this word in this context. It is used for “vindication” in legal contexts (see, e.g., Job 6:29), for “deliverance” or “salvation” in exilic contexts (see, e.g., Isa 58:8), and in the sense of ruling, judging with “justice” (see, e.g., Lev 19:15; Isa 32:1). Here it probably sums up the justice that the
[23:39] 10 tn The translation of v. 38 and the first part of v. 39 represents the restructuring of a long and complex Hebrew sentence: Heb “But if you say, ‘The burden of the
[23:39] 11 tc The translation follows a few Hebrew
[23:39] 12 tn Heb “throw you and the city that I gave you and your fathers out of my presence.” The English sentences have been broken down to conform to contemporary English style.
[29:2] 13 tn This term is often mistakenly understood to refer to a “eunuch.” It is clear, however, in Gen 39:1 that “eunuchs” could be married. On the other hand it is clear from Isa 59:3-5 that some who bore this title could not have children. In this period, it is possible that the persons who bore this title were high officials like the rab saris who was a high official in the Babylonian court (cf. Jer 39:3, 13; 52:25). For further references see HALOT 727 s.v. סָרִיס 1.c.
[29:2] 14 sn See 2 Kgs 24:14-16 and compare the study note on Jer 24:1.
[40:14] 15 tn The translation is intended to reflect the emphasizing infinitive absolute before the finite verb.
[43:3] 16 tn Or “is inciting you against us.”
[43:3] 17 tn Heb “in order to give us into the hands of the Chaldeans.” The substitution “he wants to” as the equivalent of the purpose clause has been chosen to shorten the sentence to better conform with contemporary English style.
[43:3] 18 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
[46:23] 19 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[46:23] 20 tn The precise meaning of this verse is uncertain. The Hebrew text reads: “They [those who enter in great force] will cut down her forest, oracle of the