Yeremia 23:31-32
Konteks23:31 I, the Lord, affirm 1 that I am opposed to those prophets who are using their own tongues to declare, ‘The Lord declares….’ 2 23:32 I, the Lord, affirm 3 that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. 4 I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. 5 I, the Lord, affirm it!” 6
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[23:31] 1 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[23:31] 2 tn The word “The
[23:31] sn Jer 23:30-33 are filled with biting sarcasm. The verses all begin with “Behold I am against the prophets who…” and go on to describe their reprehensible behavior. They “steal” one another’s messages which the
[23:32] 3 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[23:32] 4 tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.
[23:32] 5 sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.