Jeremiah 10:17

Jeremiah Laments for and Prays for the Soon-to-be-Judged People

10:17 Gather your belongings together and prepare to leave the land,

you people of Jerusalem ¹  who are being besieged. ² 

Jeremiah 16:2

16:2 “Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.

Jeremiah 29:15

29:15 “You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news ³  for us here in Babylon.’

Jeremiah 52:5

52:5 The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

² tn Heb “you who are living in/under siege.” The pronouns in this verse are feminine singular in Hebrew. Jerusalem is being personified as a single woman. This personification carries on down through v. 19 where she speaks in the first person. It is difficult, however, to reflect this in a translation that conveys any meaning without being somewhat paraphrastic like this.

³ tn The words “of good news” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.