Yeremia 5:16

5:16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. ¹ 

Their arrows will send you to your grave. ² 

Yeremia 11:1

The People Have Violated Their Covenant with God

11:1 The Lord said to Jeremiah: ³ 

Yeremia 25:37

25:37 Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste ⁴ 

by the fierce anger of the Lord. ⁵ 

Yeremia 30:12

The Lord Will Heal the Wounds of Judah

30:12 Moreover, ⁶  the Lord says to the people of Zion, ⁷ 

“Your injuries are incurable;

your wounds are severe. ⁸ 

Yeremia 49:25

49:25 How deserted will that once-famous city ⁹  be,

that city that was once filled with ¹⁰  joy! ¹¹ 

Yeremia 52:29

52:29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, ¹²  832 people from Jerusalem;

[5:16]  ¹ tn Heb “All of them are mighty warriors.”

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “his quiver [is] an open grave.” The order of the lines has been reversed to make the transition from “nation” to “their arrows” easier.

[11:1]  ³ tn Heb “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying.” The proposed translation is more in keeping with contemporary English idiom. Cf. 1:2 and 7:1 and footnotes there.

[25:37]  ⁴ tn For this meaning of the verb used here see HALOT 217 s.v. דָּמַם Nif. Elsewhere it refers to people dying (see, e.g., Jer 49:26; 50:30) hence some see a reference to “lifeless.”

[25:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “because of the burning anger of the Lord.”

[30:12]  ⁶ tn The particle כִּי (ki) here is parallel to the one in v. 5 that introduces the first oracle. See the discussion in the translator’s note there.

[30:12]  ⁷ tn The pronouns in vv. 10-17 are second feminine singular referring to a personified entity. That entity is identified in v. 17 as Zion, which here stands for the people of Zion.

[30:12]  ⁸ sn The wounds to the body politic are those of the incursions from the enemy from the north referred to in Jer 4:6; 6:1 over which Jeremiah and even God himself have lamented (Jer 8:21; 10:19; 14:17). The enemy from the north has been identified as Babylon and has been identified as the agent of God’s punishment of his disobedient people (Jer 1:15; 4:6; 25:9).

[49:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “city of praise.”

[49:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “city of joy.”

[49:25]  ¹¹ tc Or “Why has that famous city not been abandoned, that city I once took delight in?” The translation follows the majority of modern commentaries in understanding לֹא (lo’, “not”) before “abandoned” as a misunderstanding of the emphatic ל (lamed; so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 723, n. 3, and J. Bright, Jeremiah [AB], 333, n. c; see also IBHS 211-12 §11.2.10i and HALOT 485-86 s.v. II לְ for the phenomenon). The particle is missing from the Vulgate. The translation also follows the versions in omitting the suffix on the word “joy” that is found in the Hebrew text (see BHS note b for a listing of the versions). This gives a better connection with the preceding and the following verse than the alternate translation.

[52:29]  ¹² sn This would be 586 b.c.