Yeremia 2:25

2:25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out

and your throats become dry. ¹ 

But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me

because I love those foreign gods ²  and want to pursue them!’

Yeremia 18:12

18:12 But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say! ³  We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’” ⁴ 

Yeremia 22:21

22:21 While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. ⁵ 

But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.”

That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. ⁶ 

Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.

Yeremia 44:16

44:16 “We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us! ⁷ 

[2:25]  ¹ tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”

[2:25]  ² tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”

[18:12]  ³ tn Heb “It is useless!” See the same expression in a similar context in Jer 2:25.

[18:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “We will follow our own plans and do each one according to the stubbornness of his own wicked heart.”

[18:12]  sn This has been the consistent pattern of their behavior. See 7:24; 9:13; 13:10; 16:12.

[22:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “I spoke to you in your security.” The reference is to the sending of the prophets. Compare this context with the context of 7:25. For the nuance “security” for this noun (שַׁלְוָה, shalvah) rather than “prosperity” as many translate see Pss 122:7; 30:6 and the related adjective (שָׁלֵו, shalev) in Jer 49:31; Job 16:2; 21:23.

[22:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “from your youth.” Compare the usage in 2:2; 3:24 and compare a similar idea in 7:25.

[44:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “the word [or message] you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord.” For an explanation of the rendering of “in the name of the Lord” see the study notes on 10:25 and 23:27.