Yeremia 10:5

10:5 Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field.

They cannot talk.

They must be carried

because they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of them

because they cannot hurt you.

And they do not have any power to help you.” ¹ 

Yeremia 47:7

47:7 But how can it rest ² 

when I, the Lord, have ³  given it orders?

I have ordered it to attack

the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast. ⁴ 

[10:5]  ¹ tn Heb “And it is not in them to do good either.”

[47:7]  ² tn The reading here follows the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions. The Hebrew text reads “how can you rest” as a continuation of the second person in v. 6.

[47:7]  ³ tn Heb “When the Lord has.” The first person is again adopted because the Lord has been speaking.

[47:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “Against Ashkelon and the sea coast, there he has appointed it.” For the switch to the first person see the preceding translator’s note. “There” is poetical and redundant and the idea of “attacking” is implicit in “against.”