2:25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out
and your throats become dry. 1
But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me
because I love those foreign gods 2 and want to pursue them!’
31:16 The Lord says to her, 3
“Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! 4
For your heartfelt repentance 5 will be rewarded.
Your children will return from the land of the enemy.
I, the Lord, affirm it! 6
1 tn Heb “Refrain your feet from being bare and your throat from being dry/thirsty.”
2 tn Heb “It is useless! No!” For this idiom, see Jer 18:12; NEB “No; I am desperate.”
3 tn The words “to her” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Refrain your voice from crying and your eyes from tears.”
5 tn Heb “your work.” Contextually her “work” refers to her weeping and refusing to be comforted, that is, signs of genuine repentance (v. 15).
6 tn Heb “Oracle of the