Jeremiah 14:4

14:4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked ¹ 

because there has been no rain in the land.

The farmers, too, are dismayed

and bury their faces in their hands.

Jeremiah 24:10

24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease ²  on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’” ³ 

Jeremiah 28:16

28:16 So the Lord says, ‘I will most assuredly remove ⁴  you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.’” ⁵ 

Jeremiah 7:20

7:20 So,” the Lord God ⁶  says, “my raging fury will be poured out on this land. ⁷  It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. ⁸  And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished.”

Jeremiah 8:2

8:2 They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. ⁹  These are things they ¹⁰  adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, ¹¹  from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people ¹²  will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 16:4

16:4 They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

Jeremiah 25:5

25:5 He said through them, ¹⁴  ‘Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. ¹⁵  If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession. ¹⁶ 

Jeremiah 25:26

25:26 all the kings of the north, whether near or far from one another; and all the other kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. After all of them have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath, ¹⁷  the king of Babylon ¹⁸  must drink it.

Jeremiah 25:33

25:33 Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time

will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other.

They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried. ¹⁹ 

Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.

Jeremiah 35:7

35:7 Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. ²⁰  Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will ²¹  live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ ²² 

Jeremiah 35:15

35:15 I sent all my servants the prophets to warn you over and over again. They said, “Every one of you, stop doing the evil things you have been doing and do what is right. ²³  Do not pay allegiance to other gods ²⁴  and worship them. Then you can continue to live in this land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not pay any attention or listen to me.

¹ tn For the use of the verb “is cracked” here see BDB 369 s.v. חָתַת Qal.1 and compare the usage in Jer 51:56 where it refers to broken bows. The form is a relative clause without relative pronoun (cf., GKC 486-87 §155.f). The sentence as a whole is related to the preceding through a particle meaning “because of” or “on account of.” Hence the subject and verb have been repeated to make the connection.

² sn See Jer 14:12 and the study note there.

³ tn Heb “fathers.”

³ sn There is a play on words here in Hebrew between “did not send you” and “will…remove you.” The two verbs are from the same root word in Hebrew. The first is the simple active and the second is the intensive.

⁴ sn In giving people false assurances of restoration when the Lord had already told them to submit to Babylon, Hananiah was really counseling rebellion against the Lord. What Hananiah had done was contrary to the law of Deut 13:6 and was punishable by death.

⁴ tn Heb “Lord Yahweh.” The translation follows the ancient Jewish tradition of substituting the Hebrew word for God for the proper name Yahweh.

⁵ tn Heb “this place.” Some see this as a reference to the temple but the context has been talking about what goes on in the towns of Judah and Jerusalem and the words that follow, meant as a further explanation, are applied to the whole land.

⁶ tn Heb “the trees of/in the field and the fruit of/in the ground.”

⁵ tc MT, 4QJer^a and LXX read “the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven,” but 4QJer^c reads “the sun and all the stars.”

⁶ tn Heb “the sun, moon, and host of heaven which they…”

⁷ tn Heb “followed after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

⁸ tn Heb “they will not” but the referent is far enough removed that it might be ambiguous.

⁹ tn Heb “like dung/manure on the surface of the ground.”

⁶ tn Heb “saying.” The infinitive goes back to “he sent”; i.e., “he sent, saying.”

⁷ tn Heb “Turn [masc. pl.] each person from his wicked way and from the evil of your [masc. pl.] doings.” See the same demand in 23:22.

⁸ tn Heb “gave to you and your fathers with reference to from ancient times even unto forever.” See the same idiom in 7:7.

⁷ tn The words “have drunk the wine of the Lord’s wrath” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity at the end of the list to serve as a transition to the next sentence which does not directly mention the cup or the Lord’s wrath.

⁸ tn Heb “the king of Sheshach.” “Sheshach” is a code name for Babylon formed on the principle of substituting the last letter of the alphabet for the first, the next to the last for the second, and so on. On this principle Hebrew שׁ (shin) is substituted for Hebrew ב (bet) and Hebrew כ (kaf) is substituted for Hebrew ל (lamed). On the same principle “Leb Kamai” in Jer 51:1 is a code name for Chasdim or Chaldeans which is Jeremiah’s term for the Babylonians. No explanation is given for why the code names are used. The name “Sheshach” for Babylon also occurs in Jer 51:41 where the term Babylon is found in parallelism with it.

⁸ sn The intent here is to emphasize the large quantity of those who are killed – there will be too many to insure proper mourning rites and proper burial.

⁹ tn Heb “Don’t plant a vineyard and it shall not be to you [= and you shall/must not have one].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Don’t…and don’t…but live…in order that you might….”

¹¹ sn Heb “where you are sojourning.” The terms “sojourn” and “sojourner” referred to a person who resided in a country not his own, without the rights and privileges of citizenship as a member of a nation, state, or principality. In the ancient Near East such people were dependent on the laws of hospitality rather than the laws of state for protection and provision of legal rights. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Abraham who “sojourned” among the Philistines and the Hittites in Canaan and was dependent upon them for grazing and water rights and for a place to bury his wife (cf. Gen 20-24). What is described here is the typical lifestyle of a nomadic tribe.

¹⁰ tn Heb “Turn, each of you, from his [= your] wicked way and make good your deeds.” Compare 18:11 where the same idiom occurs with the added term of “make good your ways.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Don’t go after/follow other gods.” See the translator’s note on 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom and see 11:10; 13:10; 25:6 for the same idiom.