Jeremiah 30:2

30:2 “The Lord God of Israel says, ¹  ‘Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll. ² 

Hosea 8:12

8:12 I spelled out my law for him in great detail,

but they regard it as something totally unknown ³  to them!

¹ tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel, saying….” For significance of the title “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel” see the note at 2:19.

² tn Heb “Write all the words which I speak to you in a scroll.” The verb “which I speak” is the instantaneous use of the perfect tense (cf. GKC 311-12 §106.i or IBHS 488-89 §30.5.1d). The words that the Lord is about to speak follow in chs. 30–31.

³ tn Heb “foreign” or “alien”; NASB, NRSV “as a strange thing.”