Yeremia 3:4

3:4 Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! ¹ 

You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

Yeremia 8:11

8:11 They offer only superficial help

for the hurt my dear people ²  have suffered. ³ 

They say, “Everything will be all right!”

But everything is not all right! ⁴ 

Yeremia 10:24

10:24 Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. ⁵ 

Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing. ⁶ 

Yeremia 15:21

15:21 “I will deliver you from the power of the wicked.

I will free you from the clutches of violent people.”

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Have you not just now called out to me, ‘[you are] my father!’?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer.

[8:11]  ² tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.

[8:11]  ³ tn Heb “They heal the wound of my people lightly.”

[8:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “They say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ and there is no peace!”

[10:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “with justice.”

[10:24]  ⁶ tn The words, “to almost nothing” are not in the text. They are implicit from the general context and are supplied by almost all English versions.