Yeremia 23:32

23:32 I, the Lord, affirm ¹  that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. ²  I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. ³  I, the Lord, affirm it!” ⁴ 

Yeremia 49:2

49:2 Because you did that,

I, the Lord, affirm that ⁵  a time is coming

when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon,

hear the sound of the battle cry.

It will become a mound covered with ruins. ⁶ 

Its villages will be burned to the ground. ⁷ 

Then Israel will take back its land

from those who took their land from them.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁸ 

[23:32]  ¹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[23:32]  ² 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]  ³ 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.

[23:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[49:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[49:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “a desolate tel.” For the explanation of what a “tel” is see the study note on 30:18.

[49:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “Its daughters will be burned with fire.” For the use of the word “daughters” to refer to the villages surrounding a larger city see BDB 123 s.v. I בַּת 4 and compare the usage in Judg 1:27.

[49:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “says the Lord.” The first person is used to maintain the first person address throughout.