Yeremia 30:7
Konteks30:7 Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! 1
There has never been any like it.
It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob,
but some of them will be rescued out of it. 2
Yeremia 48:26
Konteks48:26 “Moab has vaunted itself against me.
So make him drunk with the wine of my wrath 3
until he splashes 4 around in his own vomit,
until others treat him as a laughingstock.
[30:7] 1 tn Heb “Alas [or Woe] for that day will be great.” For the use of the particle “Alas” to signal a time of terrible trouble, even to sound the death knell for someone, see the translator’s note on 22:13.
[30:7] sn The reference to a terrible time of trouble (Heb “that day”) is a common shorthand reference in the prophets to “the Day of the
[30:7] 2 tn Heb “It is a time of trouble for Jacob but he will be saved out of it.”
[30:7] sn Jacob here is figurative for the people descended from him. Moreover the figure moves from Jacob = descendants of Jacob to only a part of those descendants. Not all of his descendants who have experienced and are now experiencing trouble will be saved. Only a remnant (i.e., the good figs, cf., e.g., Jer 23:3; 31:7) will see the good things that the
[48:26] 3 tn Heb “Make him drunk because he has magnified himself against the
[48:26] 4 tn The meaning of this word is uncertain. It is usually used of clapping the hands or the thigh in helpless anger or disgust. Hence J. Bright (Jeremiah [AB], 321) paraphrases “shall vomit helplessly.” HALOT 722 s.v. II סָפַק relates this to an Aramaic word and see a homonym meaning “vomit” or “spew out.” The translation is that of BDB 706 s.v. סָפַק Qal.3, “splash (fall with a splash),” from the same root that refers to slapping or clapping the thigh.