Yeremia 2:37

2:37 Moreover, you will come away from Egypt

with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame ¹ 

because the Lord will not allow your reliance on them to be successful

and you will not gain any help from them. ² 

Yeremia 6:21

6:21 So, this is what the Lord says:

‘I will assuredly ³  make these people stumble to their doom. ⁴ 

Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. ⁵ 

Friends and neighbors will die.’

[2:37]  ¹ tn Heb “with your hands on your head.” For the picture here see 2 Sam 13:19.

[2:37]  ² tn Heb “The Lord has rejected those you trust in; you will not prosper by/from them.”

[6:21]  ³ tn This is an attempt to render the Hebrew particle rendered “behold” joined to the first person pronoun.

[6:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will put stumbling blocks in front of these people.” In this context the stumbling blocks are the invading armies.

[6:21]  ⁵ tn The words “and fall to their destruction” are implicit in the metaphor and are supplied in the translation for clarity.