Jeremiah 30:14

30:14 All your allies have abandoned you. ¹ 

They no longer have any concern for you.

For I have attacked you like an enemy would.

I have chastened you cruelly.

For your wickedness is so great

and your sin is so much. ² 

Jeremiah 30:17

30:17 Yes, ³  I will restore you to health.

I will heal your wounds.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁴ 

For you have been called an outcast,

Zion, whom no one cares for.”

[30:14]  ¹ tn Heb “forgotten you.”

[30:14]  ² tn Heb “attacked you like…with the chastening of a cruel one because of the greatness of your iniquity [and because] your sins are many.” The sentence has been broken down to conform to contemporary English style and better poetic scansion.

[30:17]  ³ tn Again the particle כִּי (ki) appears to be intensive rather than causal. Compare the translator’s note on v. 12. It is possible that it has an adversative sense as an implicit contrast with v. 13 which expresses these concepts in the negative (cf. BDB 474 s.v. כִּי 3.e for this use in statements which are contextually closer to one another).

[30:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”