Yeremia 32:4-5
Konteks32:4 King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. 1 He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face. 2 32:5 Zedekiah will be carried off to Babylon and will remain there until I have fully dealt with him. 3 I, the Lord, affirm it! 4 Even if you 5 continue to fight against the Babylonians, 6 you cannot win.’”
Yeremia 38:18
Konteks38:18 But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be handed over to the Babylonians 7 and they will burn it down. You yourself will not escape from them.’” 8
Yeremia 38:23
Konteks38:23 “All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. 9 You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the 10 king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.” 11
[32:4] 1 tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.
[32:4] 2 tn Heb “his [Zedekiah’s] mouth will speak with his [Nebuchadnezzar’s] mouth and his eyes will see his eyes.” The verbs here are an obligatory imperfect and its vav consecutive perfect equivalent. (See IBHS 508-9 §31.4g for discussion and examples of the former and IBHS 528 §32.2.1d, n. 16, for the latter.)
[32:5] 3 tn This is the verb (פָּקַד, paqad) that has been met with several times in the book of Jeremiah, most often in the ominous sense of “punish” (e.g., 6:15; 11:22; 23:24) but also in the good sense of “resume concern for” (e.g., 27:22; 29:10). Here it is obviously in the ominous sense referring to his imprisonment and ultimate death (52:11).
[32:5] sn Compare Jer 34:2-3 for this same prophecy. The incident in Jer 34:1-7 appears to be earlier than this one. Here Jeremiah is confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse; there he appears to have freedom of movement.
[32:5] 4 tn Heb “Oracle of the
[32:5] 5 sn The pronouns are plural here, referring to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Jeremiah had counseled that they surrender (cf. 27:12; 21:8-10) because they couldn’t succeed against the Babylonian army even under the most favorable circumstances (37:3-10).
[32:5] 6 tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.
[38:18] 7 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
[38:18] 8 tn Heb “will not escape from their hand.”
[38:18] sn Zedekiah held out this hope of escape until the end and attempted to do so but was unsuccessful (cf. 39:4-5).
[38:23] 9 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
[38:23] 10 tn Heb “you yourself will not escape from their hand but will be seized by [caught in] the hand of the king of Babylon.” Neither use of “hand” is natural to the English idiom.
[38:23] 11 tc This translation follows the reading of the Greek version and a few Hebrew