Jeremiah 5:29

5:29 I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord.

“I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this! ¹ 

Jeremiah 27:12-13

27:12 I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, ²  “Submit ³  to the yoke of servitude to ⁴  the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live. 27:13 There is no reason why you and your people should die in war ⁵  or from starvation or disease! ⁶  That’s what the Lord says will happen to any nation ⁷  that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ⁸  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ⁹  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Nehemiah 9:28

9:28 “Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to ¹⁰  their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

Isaiah 14:3

14:3 When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, ¹¹  and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

[5:29]  ¹ tn Heb “Should I not punish…? Should I not bring retribution…?” The rhetorical questions function as emphatic declarations.

[27:12]  ² tn Heb “I spoke to Zedekiah…according to all these words, saying.”

[27:12]  ³ sn The verbs in this verse are all plural. They are addressed to Zedekiah and his royal advisers (compare 22:2).

[27:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “put their necks in the yoke of.” See the study note on v. 2 for the figure.

[27:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “with/by the sword.”

[27:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “Why should you and your people die…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer made explicit in the translation, “There is no reason!”

[27:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “…disease according to what the Lord spoke concerning the nation that…”

[28:48]  ⁸ tn Heb “lack of everything.”

[28:48]  ⁹ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

[9:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the hand of” (so KJV, ASV); NAB “to the power of.”

[14:3]  ¹¹ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.