Jeremiah 30:24

30:24 The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.

In days to come you will come to understand this. ¹ 

Jeremiah 52:6

52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month ²  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ³  had no food.

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ⁴  day of the fifth month, ⁵  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁶  who served ⁷  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

¹ sn Jer 30:23-24 are almost a verbatim repetition of 23:19-20. There the verses were addressed to the people of Jerusalem as a warning that the false prophets had no intimate awareness of the Lord’s plans which were plans of destruction for wicked Israel not plans of peace and prosperity. Here they function as further assurance that the Lord will judge the wicked nations oppressing them when he reverses their fortunes and restores them once again to the land as his special people (cf. vv. 18-22).

² sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

³ tn Heb “the people of the land.”

³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

⁴ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”