Jeremiah 2:26

2:26 Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught,

so the people of Israel ¹  will suffer dishonor for what they have done. ² 

So will their kings and officials,

their priests and their prophets.

Jeremiah 20:8

20:8 For whenever I prophesy, ³  I must cry out, ⁴ 

“Violence and destruction are coming!” ⁵ 

This message from the Lord ⁶  has made me

an object of continual insults and derision.

Jeremiah 25:7

25:7 So, now the Lord says, ⁷  ‘You have not listened to me. But ⁸  you have made me angry by the things that you have done. ⁹  Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

¹ tn Heb “house of Israel.”

² tn The words “for what they have done” are implicit in the comparison and are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “speak,” but the speaking is in the context of speaking as a prophet.

⁴ tn Heb “I cry out, I proclaim.”

⁵ tn Heb “Violence and destruction.”

⁶ tn Heb “the word of the Lord.” For the use of כִּי…כִּי (ki…ki) here in the sense of “for…and” see KBL 432 s.v. כּי 10.

⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

⁶ tn This is a rather clear case where the Hebrew particle לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) introduces a consequence and not a purpose, contrary to the dictum of BDB 775 s.v. מַעַן note 1. They have not listened to him in order to make him angry but with the result that they have made him angry by going their own way. Jeremiah appears to use this particle for result rather than purpose on several other occasions (see, e.g., 7:18, 19; 27:10, 15; 32:29).

⁷ tn Heb “make me angry with the work of your hands.” The term “work of your own hands” is often interpreted as a reference to idolatry as is clearly the case in Isa 2:8; 37:19. However, the parallelism in 25:14 and the context in 32:30 show that it is more general and refers to what they have done. That is likely the meaning here as well.