Yeremia 16:11

16:11 Then tell them that the Lord says, ¹  ‘It is because your ancestors ²  rejected me and paid allegiance to ³  other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 20:8

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ⁵  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ⁶  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

[16:11]  ¹ tn These two sentences have been recast in English to break up a long Hebrew sentence and incorporate the oracular formula “says the Lord (Heb ‘oracle of the Lord’)” which occurs after “Your fathers abandoned me.” In Hebrew the two sentences read: “When you tell them these things and they say, ‘…’, then tell them, ‘Because your ancestors abandoned me,’ oracle of the Lord.”

[16:11]  ² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13, 15, 19).

[16:11]  ³ tn Heb “followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the explanation of the idiom.

[16:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “But me they have abandoned and my law they have not kept.” The objects are thrown forward to bring out the contrast which has rhetorical force. However, such a sentence in English would be highly unnatural.

[20:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

[20:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”