Yeremia 4:12

4:12 No, ¹  a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding.

Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’ ² 

Yeremia 32:6

32:6 So now, Jeremiah said, “The Lord told me, ³ 

[4:12]  ¹ tn The word “No” is not in the text but is carried over from the connection with the preceding line “not for…”

[4:12]  ² tn Heb “will speak judgments against them.”

[32:6]  ³ tn Heb “The word of the Lord came to me, saying.” This verse resumes the narrative introduction in v. 1 which was interrupted by the long parenthetical note about historical background. There is again some disjunction in the narrative (compare the translator’s notes on 27:2 and 28:1). What was begun as a biographical (third person) narrative turns into an autobiographical (first person) narrative until v. 26 where the third person is again resumed. Again this betrays the hand of the narrator, Baruch.