Yeremia 7:33
Konteks7:33 Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. 1 There will not be any survivors to scare them away.
Yeremia 9:5
Konteks9:5 One friend deceives another
and no one tells the truth.
These people have trained themselves 2 to tell lies.
They do wrong and are unable to repent.
Yeremia 17:10
Konteks17:10 I, the Lord, probe into people’s minds.
I examine people’s hearts. 3
I deal with each person according to how he has behaved.
I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
Yeremia 22:7
Konteks22:7 I will send men against it to destroy it 4
with their axes and hatchets.
They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns
and throw them into the fire.
Yeremia 25:16
Konteks25:16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro 5 and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.” 6
Yeremia 48:46
KonteksYou people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed.
Your sons will be taken away captive.
Your daughters will be carried away into exile. 8
Yeremia 49:14
Konteks49:14 I said, 9 “I have heard a message from the Lord.
A messenger has been sent among the nations to say,
‘Gather your armies and march out against her!
Prepare to do battle with her!’” 10
[7:33] 1 tn Heb “Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.”
[9:5] 2 tn Heb “their tongues.” However, this is probably not a natural idiom in contemporary English and the tongue may stand as a part for the whole anyway.
[17:10] 3 tn The term rendered “mind” here and in the previous verse is actually the Hebrew word for “heart.” However, in combination with the word rendered “heart” in the next line, which is the Hebrew for “kidneys,” it is best rendered “mind” because the “heart” was considered the center of intellect, conscience, and will and the “kidneys” the center of emotions.
[17:10] sn For an earlier reference to this motif see Jer 11:20. For a later reference see Jer 20:12. See also Ps 17:2-3.
[22:7] 4 sn Heb “I will sanctify destroyers against it.” If this is not an attenuated use of the term “sanctify” the traditions of Israel’s holy wars are being turned against her. See also 6:4. In Israel’s early wars in the wilderness and in the conquest, the
[25:16] 5 tn There is some debate about the meaning of the verb here. Both BDB 172 s.v. גָּעַשׁ Hithpo and KBL 191 s.v. גָּעַשׁ Hitpol interpret this of the back and forth movement of staggering. HALOT 192 s.v. גָּעַשׁ Hitpo interprets it as vomiting. The word is used elsewhere of the up and down movement of the mountains (2 Sam 22:8) and the up and down movement of the rolling waves of the Nile (Jer 46:7, 8). The fact that a different verb is used in v. 27 for vomiting would appear to argue against it referring to vomiting (contra W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:674; it is “they” that do this not their stomachs).
[25:16] 6 tn Heb “because of the sword that I will send among them.” Here, as often elsewhere in Jeremiah, the sword is figurative for warfare which brings death. See, e.g., 15:2. The causal particle here is found in verbal locutions where it is the cause of emotional states or action. Hence there are really two “agents” which produce the effects of “staggering” and “acting insane,” the cup filled with God’s wrath and the sword. The sword is the “more literal” and the actual agent by which the first agent’s action is carried out.
[48:46] 7 tn Heb “Woe to you, Moab.” For the usage of this expression see 4:13, 31; 13:17 and the translator’s note on 4:13 and 10:19.
[48:46] 8 tn Heb “Your sons will be taken away into captivity, your daughters into exile.”
[49:14] 9 tn The words “I said” are not in the text but it is generally agreed that the words that follow are Jeremiah’s. These words are supplied in the translation to make clear that the speaker has shifted from the
[49:14] 10 tn Heb “Rise up for battle.” The idea “against her” is implicit from the context and has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
