Yeremia 8:3
Konteks8:3 However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” 1 says the Lord who rules over all. 2
Yeremia 13:17
Konteks13:17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, 3
I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride.
I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears 4
because you, the Lord’s flock, 5 will be carried 6 into exile.”
Yeremia 48:17-18
Konteks48:17 Mourn for that nation, all you nations living around it,
all of you nations that know of its fame. 7
Mourn and say, ‘Alas, its powerful influence has been broken!
Its glory and power have been done away!’ 8
48:18 Come down from your place of honor;
sit on the dry ground, 9 you who live in Dibon. 10
For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you;
he will destroy your fortifications.
Yeremia 50:17
Konteks50:17 “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep
which lions have chased away.
First the king of Assyria devoured them. 11
Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones. 12
[8:3] 1 tn Heb “Death will be chosen rather than life by the remnant who are left from this wicked family in all the places where I have banished them.” The sentence is broken up and restructured to avoid possible confusion because of the complexity of the English to some modern readers. There appears to be an extra “those who are left” that was inadvertently copied from the preceding line. It is missing from one Hebrew
[8:3] 2 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”
[8:3] sn For the significance of this title see the notes at 2:19 and 7:3.
[13:17] 3 tn Heb “If you will not listen to it.” For the use of the feminine singular pronoun to refer to the idea(s) expressed in the preceding verse(s), see GKC 440-41 §135.p.
[13:17] 4 tn Heb “Tearing [my eye] will tear and my eye will run down [= flow] with tears.”
[13:17] sn The depth of Jeremiah’s sorrow for the sad plight of his people, if they refuse to repent, is emphasized by the triple repetition of the word “tears” twice in an emphatic verbal expression (Hebrew infinitive before finite verb) and once in the noun.
[13:17] 5 tn Heb “because the
[13:17] 6 tn The verb is once again in the form of “as good as done” (the Hebrew prophetic perfect).
[48:17] 7 tn For the use of the word “name” (שֵׁם, shem) to “fame” or “repute” see BDB 1028 s.v. שֵׁם 2.b and compare the usage in Ezek 16:14; 2 Chr 26:15.
[48:17] sn This refers to both the nearby nations and those who lived further away who had heard of Moab’s power and might only by repute.
[48:17] 8 tn Heb “How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod.” “How” introduces a lament which is here rendered by “Alas.” The staff and rod refer to the support that Moab gave to others not to the fact that she ruled over others which was never the case. According to BDB 739 s.v. עוֹז 1 the “strong staff” is figurative of political power.
[48:18] 9 tn Heb “sit in thirst.” The abstract “thirst” is put for the concrete, i.e., thirsty or parched ground (cf. Deut 8:19; Isa 35:7; Ps 107:33) for the concrete. There is no need to emend to “filth” (צֹאָה [tso’ah] for צָמָא [tsama’]) as is sometimes suggested.
[48:18] 10 tn Heb “inhabitant of Daughter Dibon.” “Daughter” is used here as often in Jeremiah for the personification of a city, a country, or its inhabitants. The word “inhabitant” is to be understood as a collective as also in v. 19.
[48:18] sn Dibon was an important fortified city located on the “King’s Highway,” the main north-south road in Transjordan. It was the site at which the Moabite Stone was found in 1868 and was one of the cities mentioned on it. It was four miles north of the Arnon River and thirteen miles east of the Dead Sea. It was one of the main cities on the northern plateau and had been conquered from Sihon and allotted to the tribe of Reuben (Josh 13:17).
[50:17] 11 sn The king of Assyria devoured them. This refers to the devastation wrought on northern Israel by the kings of Assyria beginning in 738
[50:17] 12 tn The verb used here only occurs this one time in the Hebrew Bible. It is a denominative from the Hebrew word for “bones” (עֶצֶם, ’etsem). BDB 1126 s.v. עֶָצַם, denom Pi, define it as “break his bones.” HALOT 822 s.v. II עָצַם Pi defines it as “gnaw on his bones.”
[50:17] sn If the prophecies which are referred to in Jer 51:59-64 refer to all that is contained in Jer 50–51 (as some believe), this would have referred to the disasters of 605