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 

[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.