Yeremia 10:4

10:4 He decorates it with overlays of silver and gold.

He uses hammer and nails to fasten it ¹  together

so that it will not fall over.

Yeremia 19:10

19:10 The Lord continued, ²  “Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

Yeremia 22:1

22:1 The Lord told me, ³  “Go down ⁴  to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there. ⁵ 

Yeremia 28:12

28:12 But shortly after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah’s neck, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

Yeremia 32:6

32:6 So now, Jeremiah said, “The Lord told me, ⁶ 

Yeremia 35:12

35:12 Then the Lord spoke to Jeremiah.

[10:4]  ¹ tn The pronoun is plural in Hebrew, referring to the parts.

[19:10]  ² tn The words “And the Lord continued” are not in the text. However, they are necessary to take us clearly back to the flow of the narrative begun in vv. 1-2 and interrupted by the long speech in vv. 3-9.

[22:1]  ³ tn The word “me “ is not in the text. It is, however, implicit and is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[22:1]  ⁴ sn The allusion here is to going down from the temple to the palace which was on a lower eminence. See 36:12 in its context.

[22:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “And speak there this word:” The translation is intended to eliminate an awkward and lengthy sentence.

[32:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “The word of the Lord came to me, saying.” This verse resumes the narrative introduction in v. 1 which was interrupted by the long parenthetical note about historical background. There is again some disjunction in the narrative (compare the translator’s notes on 27:2 and 28:1). What was begun as a biographical (third person) narrative turns into an autobiographical (first person) narrative until v. 26 where the third person is again resumed. Again this betrays the hand of the narrator, Baruch.