Yeremia 2:19
Konteks2:19 Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment.
Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. 1
Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful 2
it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, 3
to show no respect for me,” 4
says the Lord God who rules over all. 5
Yeremia 3:7
Konteks3:7 Yet even after she had done all that, I thought that she might come back to me. 6 But she did not. Her sister, unfaithful Judah, saw what she did. 7
Yeremia 5:6
Konteks5:6 So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them.
Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them.
Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities
and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. 8
For they have rebelled so much
and done so many unfaithful things. 9
[2:19] 1 tn Or “teach you a lesson”; Heb “rebuke/chide you.”
[2:19] 2 tn Heb “how evil and bitter.” The reference is to the consequences of their acts. This is a figure of speech (hendiadys) where two nouns or adjectives joined by “and” introduce a main concept modified by the other noun or adjective.
[2:19] 3 tn Heb “to leave the
[2:19] 4 tn Heb “and no fear of me was on you.”
[2:19] 5 tn Heb “the Lord Yahweh, [the God of] hosts.” For the title Lord
[3:7] 6 tn Or “I said to her, ‘Come back to me!’” The verb אָמַר (’amar) usually means “to say,” but here it means “to think,” of an assumption that turns out to be wrong (so HALOT 66.4 s.v. אמר); cf. Gen 44:28; Jer 3:19; Pss 82:6; 139:11; Job 29:18; Ruth 4:4; Lam 3:18.
[3:7] sn Open theists suggest that passages such as this indicate God has limited foreknowledge; however, more traditional theologians view this passage as an extended metaphor in which God presents himself as a deserted husband, hoping against hope that his adulterous wife might return to him. The point of the metaphor is not to make an assertion about God’s foreknowledge, but to develop the theme of God’s heartbreak due to Israel’s unrepentance.
[3:7] 7 tn The words “what she did” are not in the text but are implicit from the context and are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[5:6] 8 tn Heb “So a lion from the thicket will kill them. A wolf from the desert will destroy them. A leopard will watch outside their cities. Anyone who goes out from them will be torn in pieces.” However, it is unlikely that, in the context of judgment that Jeremiah has previously been describing, literal lions are meant. The animals are metaphorical for their enemies. Compare Jer 4:7.
[5:6] 9 tn Heb “their rebellions are so many and their unfaithful acts so numerous.”