Jeremiah 3:17

3:17 At that time the city of Jerusalem 1  will be called the Lord’s throne. All nations will gather there in Jerusalem to honor the Lord’s name. 2  They will no longer follow the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. 3 

Jeremiah 11:8

11:8 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’” 4 

Jeremiah 13:10

13:10 These wicked people refuse to obey what I have said. 5  They follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts and pay allegiance 6  to other gods by worshiping and serving them. So 7  they will become just like these linen shorts which are good for nothing.

1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

2 tn Heb “will gather to the name of the Lord.”

3 tn Heb “the stubbornness of their evil hearts.”

4 tn Heb “So I brought on them all the terms of this covenant which I commanded to do and they did not do.” There is an interesting polarity that is being exploited by two different nuances implicit in the use of the word “terms” (דִּבְרֵי [divre], literally “words”), i.e., what the Lord “brings on” them, namely, the curses that are the penalty for disobedience and the stipulations that they are “to do,” that is, to carry out. The sentence is broken up this way in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid the long and complicated style of the original.

7 tn Heb “to listen to my words.”

8 tn Heb “and [they follow] after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for the idiom.

9 tn The structure of this verse is a little unusual. It consists of a subject, “this wicked people” qualified by several “which” clauses preceding a conjunction and a form which would normally be taken as a third person imperative (a Hebrew jussive; וִיהִי, vihi). This construction, called casus pendens by Hebrew grammarians, lays focus on the subject, here calling attention to the nature of Israel’s corruption which makes it rotten and useless to God. See GKC 458 §143.d for other examples of this construction.