Yeremia 18:22

18:22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses

when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. ¹ 

For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me

and have hidden traps for me to step into.

Yeremia 23:12

23:12 So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.

They will stumble and fall headlong.

For I will bring disaster on them.

A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ² 

The Lord affirms it! ³ 

Yeremia 24:10

24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease ⁴  on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’” ⁵ 

[18:22]  ¹ tn Heb “when you bring marauders in against them.” For the use of the noun translated here “bands of raiders to plunder them” see 1 Sam 30:3, 15, 23 and BDB 151 s.v. גְּדוּד 1.

[23:12]  ² tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.

[23:12]  ³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[24:10]  ⁴ sn See Jer 14:12 and the study note there.

[24:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”