Text -- Jeremiah 14:12 (NET)

14:12 Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 14:12

¹ sn See 6:16-20 for parallels.

² tn Heb “through sword, starvation, and plague.”

sn These were penalties (curses) that were to be imposed on Israel for failure to keep her covenant with God (cf. Lev 26:23-26). These three occur together fourteen other times in the book of Jeremiah.