Jeremiah 19:12

19:12 I, the Lord, say: ¹  ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.

Jeremiah 23:11

23:11 Moreover, ²  the Lord says, ³ 

“Both the prophets and priests are godless.

I have even found them doing evil in my temple!

Jeremiah 30:5

30:5 Yes, ⁴  here is what he says:

“You hear cries of panic and of terror;

there is no peace in sight. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 33:3

33:3 ‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious ⁶  things which you still do not know about.’

Jeremiah 36:5

36:5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am no longer allowed to go ⁷  into the Lord’s temple.

Jeremiah 38:5

38:5 King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him. ⁸  For I cannot do anything to stop you.” ⁹ 

Jeremiah 38:21

38:21 But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:

Jeremiah 42:9

42:9 Then Jeremiah said to them, “You sent me to the Lord God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you: ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 42:12-13

42:12 I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

42:13 “You must not disobey the Lord your God by saying, ‘We will not stay in this land.’

Jeremiah 44:12

44:12 I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go ¹¹  and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle ¹²  or perish from starvation. People of every class ¹³  will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ¹⁵  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ¹⁶  3,023 Jews;

¹ tn This phrase (Heb “Oracle of the Lord”) has been handled this way on several occasions when it occurs within first person addresses where the Lord is the speaker. See, e.g., 16:16; 17:24; 18:6.

² tn The particle כִּי (ki) which begins this verse is parallel to the one at the beginning of the preceding verse. However, the connection is too distant to render it “for.” “Moreover” is intended to draw the parallel. The words “the Lord says” (Heb “Oracle of the Lord”) have been drawn up to the front to introduce the shift in speaker from Jeremiah, who describes his agitated state, to God, who describes the sins of the prophets and priests and his consequent judgment on them.

³ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

³ tn The particle כִּי (ki) is functioning here as loosely causal or epexegetical of the preceding introduction. For this usage cf. BDB 473-74 s.v. כִּי 3.c. This nuance borders on that of the intensive use of כִּי. See the discussion in BDB 472 s.v. כִּי note and כִּי 1.e.

⁴ tn Heb “We have heard the sound of panic and of fear, and there is no peace.” It is generally agreed that the person of the verb presupposes that this is an unintroduced quote of the people.

⁴ tn This passive participle or adjective is normally used to describe cities or walls as “fortified” or “inaccessible.” All the lexicons, however, agree in seeing it used here metaphorically of “secret” or “mysterious” things, things that Jeremiah could not know apart from the Lord’s revelation. G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, and T. G. Smothers (Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 170) make the interesting observation that the word is used here in a context in which the fortifications of Jerusalem are about to fall to the Babylonians; the fortified things in God’s secret counsel fall through answer to prayer.

⁵ tn Heb “I am restrained; I cannot go into.” The word “restrained” is used elsewhere in Jeremiah of his being confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse (33:1; 39:15). However, that occurred only later during the tenth year of Zedekiah (Jer 32:1-2) and Jeremiah appears here to be free to come and go as he pleased (vv. 19, 26). The word is used in the active voice of the Lord preventing Sarah from having a baby (Gen 16:2). The probable nuance is here “I am prevented/ debarred” from being able to go. No reason is given why he was prevented/debarred. It has been plausibly suggested that he was prohibited from going into the temple any longer because of the scathing sermon he delivered there earlier (Jer 26:1-3; 7:1-15).

⁶ tn Heb “Behold, he is in your hands [= power/control].”

⁷ tn Heb “For the king cannot do a thing with/against you.” The personal pronoun “I” is substituted in the English translation due to differences in style; Hebrew style often uses the third person or the title in speaking of oneself but English rarely if ever does. Compare the common paraphrasis of “your servant” for “I” in Hebrew (cf. BDB 714 s.v. עֶבֶד 6 and usage in 1 Sam 20:7, 8) and compare the usage in Pss 63:11 (63:12 HT); 61:6 (61:7 HT) where the king is praying for himself. For the meaning of יָכֹל (yakhol) as “to be able to do anything,” see BDB 407 s.v. יָכֹל 1.g.

⁷ tn Heb “Thus says the Lord God of Israel to whom you sent me to present your petition before him, ‘…’” The sentence has been restructured to cut down on the length of the introduction leading in to the long quote.

⁸ tn Heb “they set their face to go.” Compare 44:11 and 42:14 and see the translator’s note at 42:15.

⁹ tn Heb “fall by the sword.”

¹⁰ tn Or “All of them without distinction,” or “All of them from the least important to the most important”; Heb “From the least to the greatest.” See the translator’s note on 42:1 for the meaning of this idiom.

¹¹ tn See the study note on 24:9 and the usage in 29:22 for the meaning and significance of this last phrase.

⁹ tn Heb “these are the people.”

¹⁰ sn This would be 597 b.c.