15:1 Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for 5 these people, I would not feel pity for them! 6 Get them away from me! Tell them to go away! 7
1 tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”
2 tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”
3 tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.
4 tn Heb “the descendants of Ephraim.” However, Ephraim here stands (as it often does) for all the northern tribes of Israel.
5 tn The words “pleading for” have been supplied in the translation to explain the idiom (a metonymy). For parallel usage see BDB 763 s.v. עָמַד Qal.1.a and compare usage in Gen 19:27, Deut 4:10.
6 tn Heb “my soul would not be toward them.” For the usage of “soul” presupposed here see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 6 in the light of the complaints and petitions in Jeremiah’s prayer in 14:19, 21.
7 tn Heb “Send them away from my presence and let them go away.”