Yeremia 4:30
Konteks4:30 And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, 1
you accomplish nothing 2 by wearing a beautiful dress, 3
decking yourself out in jewels of gold,
and putting on eye shadow! 4
You are making yourself beautiful for nothing.
Your lovers spurn you.
They want to kill you. 5
Yeremia 49:13
Konteks49:13 For I solemnly swear,” 6 says the Lord, “that Bozrah 7 will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. 8 All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”
[4:30] 1 tn Heb “And you that are doomed to destruction.” The referent is supplied from the following context and the fact that Zion/Jerusalem represents the leadership which was continually making overtures to foreign nations for help.
[4:30] 2 tn Heb “What are you accomplishing…?” The rhetorical question assumes a negative answer, made clear by the translation in the indicative.
[4:30] 3 tn Heb “clothing yourself in scarlet.”
[4:30] 4 tn Heb “enlarging your eyes with antimony.” Antimony was a black powder used by women as eyeliner to make their eyes look larger.
[4:30] 5 tn Heb “they seek your life.”
[49:13] 6 tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there.
[49:13] 7 sn Bozrah appears to have been the chief city in Edom, its capital city (see its parallelism with Edom in Isa 34:6; 63:1; Jer 49:22). The reference to “its towns” (translated here “all the towns around it”) could then be a reference to all the towns in Edom. It was located about twenty-five miles southeast of the southern end of the Dead Sea apparently in the district of Teman (see the parallelism in Amos 1:12).
[49:13] 8 tn See the study note on 24:9 for the rendering of this term.