10:10 The Lord is the only true God.
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
When he shows his anger the earth shakes.
None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
10:1 You people of Israel, 3 listen to what the Lord has to say to you.
1:1 The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. 5 He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.
5:20 “Proclaim 6 this message among the descendants of Jacob. 7
Make it known throughout Judah.
1 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative verbal form indicates purpose/result here.
2 tn Heb “who is there of all flesh.”
3 tn Heb “house of Israel.”
4 tn Heb “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.” This is an example of the Hebrew “scheduling” perfect or the “prophetic” perfect where a future event is viewed as so certain it is spoken of as past. The Hebrew particle rendered here “assuredly” (Heb הִנֵּה, hinneh) underlines the certitude of the promise for the future. See the translator’s note on v. 6.
5 tn Or “This is a record of what Jeremiah prophesied and did”; Heb “The words [or affairs] of Jeremiah.” The phrase could refer to either the messages of Jeremiah recorded in the book or to both his messages and the biographical (and autobiographical) narratives recorded about him in the book. Since the phrase is intended to serve as the title or superscription for the whole book and recurs again in 51:64 at the end of the book before the final appendix, it might refer to the latter. The expression “The words of [someone]” is a standard introductory formula (Deut 29:1[28:69]; 2 Sam 23:1; Amos 1:1; Eccl 1:1; Neh 1:1).
6 sn The verbs are second plural here. Jeremiah, speaking for the
7 tn Heb “in the house of Jacob.”