Yeremia 10:22
Konteks10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. 1
The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 2 from a land in the north. 3
It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,
places where only jackals live.
Yeremia 25:38
Konteks25:38 The Lord is like a lion who has left his lair. 4
So their lands will certainly 5 be laid waste
by the warfare of the oppressive nation 6
and by the fierce anger of the Lord.”
[10:22] 1 tn Heb “The sound of a report, behold, it is coming.”
[10:22] 2 tn Heb “ coming, even a great quaking.”
[10:22] 3 sn Compare Jer 6:22.
[25:38] 4 tn Heb “Like a lion he has left his lair.”
[25:38] sn The text returns to the metaphor alluded to in v. 30. The bracketing of speeches with repeated words or motifs is a common rhetorical device in ancient literature.
[25:38] 5 tn This is a way of rendering the Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) which is probably here for emphasis rather than indicating cause (see BDB 473 s.v. כִּי 1.e and compare usage in Jer 22:22).
[25:38] 6 tc Heb “by the sword of the oppressors.” The reading here follows a number of Hebrew
[25:38] sn The connection between “war” (Heb “the sword”) and the wrath or anger of the