33:20 Look at Zion, the city where we hold religious festivals!
You 1 will see Jerusalem, 2
a peaceful settlement,
a tent that stays put; 3
its stakes will never be pulled up;
none of its ropes will snap in two.
49:19 Yes, your land lies in ruins;
it is desolate and devastated. 4
But now you will be too small to hold your residents,
and those who devoured you will be far away.
49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement
will say within your hearing,
‘This place is too cramped for us, 5
make room for us so we can live here.’ 6
10:20 But our tents have been destroyed.
The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. 7
Our children are gone and are not coming back. 8
There is no survivor to put our tents back up,
no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.
1 tn Heb “your eyes” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3 tn Or “that does not travel”; NASB “which shall not be folded.”
4 tn Heb “Indeed your ruins and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction.” This statement is abruptly terminated in the Hebrew text and left incomplete.
5 tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.
6 tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”
7 tn Heb “My tent has been destroyed and my tent cords have been ripped apart.” For a very similar identification of Jeremiah’s plight with the plight of the personified community see 4:20 and the notes there.
8 tn Heb “my children have gone from me and are no more.”