Yesaya 51:19

51:19 These double disasters confronted you.

But who feels sorry for you?

Destruction and devastation,

famine and sword.

But who consoles you? ¹ 

Yeremia 9:16

9:16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors ²  have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords ³  until I have destroyed them.’” ⁴ 

Yeremia 6:8

6:8 So ⁵  take warning, Jerusalem,

or I will abandon you in disgust ⁶ 

and make you desolate,

a place where no one can live.”

[51:19]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text has אֲנַחֲמֵךְ (’anakhamekh), a first person form, but the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a reads correctly יִנַחֲמֵךְ (yinakhamekh), a third person form.

[9:16]  ² tn Heb “fathers.”

[9:16]  ³ tn Heb “I will send the sword after them.” The sword here is probably not completely literal but refers to death by violent means, including death by the sword.

[9:16]  ⁴ sn He will destroy them but not completely. See Jer 5:18; 30:11; 46:28.

[6:8]  ⁵ tn This word is not in the text but is supplied in the translation. Jeremiah uses a figure of speech (enallage) where the speaker turns from talking about someone to address him/her directly.

[6:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “lest my soul [= I] becomes disgusted with you.”

[6:8]  sn The wordplay begun with “sound…in Tekoa” in v. 1 and continued with “they will pitch” in v. 3 is concluded here with “turn away” (וּבִתְקוֹעַ תִּקְעוּ [uvitqoa’ tiq’u] in v. 1, תָּקְעוּ [taq’u] in v. 3 and תֵּקַע [teqa’] here).