2 Chronicles 36:16

36:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, ¹  and ridiculed his prophets. ²  Finally the Lord got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment. ³ 

Psalms 50:22

50:22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! ⁴ 

Otherwise I will rip you to shreds ⁵ 

and no one will be able to rescue you.

Jeremiah 19:11

19:11 Tell them the Lord who rules over all says, ⁶  ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. ⁷  I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. ⁸  The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’ ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “his words.”

² tn All three verbal forms (“mocked,” “despised,” and “ridiculed”) are active participles in the Hebrew text, indicating continual or repeated action. They made a habit of rejecting God’s prophetic messengers.

³ tn Heb “until the anger of the Lord went up against his people until there was no healer.”

⁴ tn Heb “[you who] forget God.” “Forgetting God” here means forgetting about his commandments and not respecting his moral authority.

⁵ sn Elsewhere in the psalms this verb is used (within a metaphorical framework) of a lion tearing its prey (see Pss 7:2; 17:12; 22:13).

⁶ tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For this title see the study note on 2:19. The translation attempts to avoid the confusion of embedding quotes within quotes by reducing this one to an indirect quote.

⁷ tn The adverb “Thus” or “Like this” normally points back to something previously mentioned. See, e.g., Exod 29:35; Num 11:15; 15:11; Deut 25:9.

⁸ tn Heb “Like this I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks the vessel of a potter which is not able to be repaired.”

⁹ sn See Jer 7:22-23 for parallels.