Jeremiah 18:9

18:9 And there are times when I promise to build up and establish ¹  a nation or kingdom.

Jeremiah 24:6

24:6 I will look after their welfare ²  and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land ³  and will not uproot them. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 31:28

31:28 In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. ⁵  I, the Lord, affirm it!” ⁶ 

Amos 9:15

9:15 I will plant them on their land

and they will never again be uprooted from the ⁷  land I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.

¹ sn Heb “plant.” The terms “uproot,” “tear down,” “destroy,” “build,” and “plant” are the two sides of the ministry Jeremiah was called to (cf. Jer 1:10).

² tn Heb “I will set my eyes upon them for good.” For the nuance of “good” see Jer 21:10; Amos 9:4 (in these cases the opposite of harm; see BDB 375 s.v. טוֹבָה 1).

³ tn The words “There” and “firmly in the land” are not in the text but are implicit from the connection and the metaphor. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁴ sn For these terms see Jer 1:10.

⁵ tn Heb “Just as I watched over them to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and demolish, so I will watch over them to build and to plant.” The words here repeat those of 1:10 and 1:12.

⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

⁷ tn Heb “their.” The pronoun was replaced by the English definite article in the translation for stylistic reasons.