Text -- Jeremiah 27:13 (NET)

27:13 There is no reason why you and your people should die in war or from starvation or disease! That’s what the Lord says will happen to any nation that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 27:13

¹ tn Heb “with/by the sword.”

² tn Heb “Why should you and your people die…?” The rhetorical question expects the answer made explicit in the translation, “There is no reason!”

³ tn Heb “…disease according to what the Lord spoke concerning the nation that…”