Jeremiah 46:24

46:24 Poor dear Egypt ¹  will be put to shame.

She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

Jeremiah 12:8

12:8 The people I call my own ²  have turned on me

like a lion ³  in the forest.

They have roared defiantly ⁴  at me.

So I will treat them as though I hate them. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 32:25

32:25 The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. ⁶  Yet, in spite of this, ⁷  you, Lord God, ⁸  have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.”’” ⁹ 

Jeremiah 32:43

32:43 You and your people ¹⁰  are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians. ¹¹  But fields ¹²  will again be bought in this land. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 52:34

52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

Jeremiah 32:24

32:24 Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city ¹⁴  in order to capture it. War, ¹⁵  starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians ¹⁶  who are attacking it. ¹⁷  Lord, ¹⁸  you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place. ¹⁹ 

Jeremiah 32:36

32:36 “You and your people ²⁰  are right in saying, ‘War, ²¹  starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.’ ²²  But now I, the Lord God of Israel, have something further to say about this city: ²³ 

Jeremiah 50:15

50:15 Shout the battle cry from all around the city.

She will throw up her hands in surrender. ²⁴ 

Her towers ²⁵  will fall.

Her walls will be torn down.

Because I, the Lord, am wreaking revenge, ²⁶ 

take out your vengeance on her!

Do to her as she has done!

¹ tn Heb “Daughter Egypt.” See the translator’s note on v. 19.

² tn See the note on the previous verse.

³ tn Heb “have become to me like a lion.”

⁴ tn Heb “have given against me with her voice.”

⁵ tn Or “so I will reject her.” The word “hate” is sometimes used in a figurative way to refer to being neglected, i.e., treated as though unloved. In these contexts it does not have the same emotive connotations that a typical modern reader would associate with hate. See Gen 29:31, 33 and E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 556.

³ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁴ tn Heb “And you, Lord Yahweh, have said to me, ‘Buy the field for…’ even though the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians.” The sentence has been broken up and the order reversed for English stylistic purposes. For the rendering “is sure to fall into the hands of” see the translator’s note on the preceding verse.

⁵ tn Heb “Lord God.” For the rendering of this title see the study note on 1:6.

⁶ tn Heb “call in witnesses to witness.”

⁴ tn Heb “you.” However, the pronoun is plural and is addressed to more than just Jeremiah (v. 26). It includes Jeremiah and those who have accepted his prophecy of doom.

⁵ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁶ tn The noun is singular with the article, but it is a case of the generic singular (cf. GKC 406 §126.m).

⁷ tn Heb “Fields will be bought in this land of which you [masc. pl.] are saying, ‘It will be desolate [a perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect] without man or beast; it will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’” The original sentence has been broken down to better conform to contemporary English style.

⁵ tn Heb “Siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it.”

⁶ tn Heb “sword.”

⁷ tn Heb “The Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for further explanation.

⁸ tn Heb “And the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, starvation, and disease.” The verb “has been given” is one of those perfects that view the action as good as done (the perfect of certainty or prophetic perfect).

⁹ tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed.

¹⁰ tn Heb “And what you said has happened and behold you see it.”

⁶ tn Heb “you.” However, the pronoun is plural and is addressed to more than just Jeremiah (v. 26). It includes Jeremiah and those who have accepted his prophecy of doom.

⁷ tn Heb “sword.”

⁸ sn Compare Jer 32:24, 28. In 32:24 this is Jeremiah’s statement just before he expresses his perplexity about the Lord’s command to buy the field of his cousin in spite of the certainty of the city’s demise. In 32:28 it is the Lord’s affirmation that the city will indeed fall. Here, the Lord picks up Jeremiah’s assessment only to add a further prophesy (vv. 37-41) of what is just as sure to happen (v. 42). This is the real answer to Jeremiah’s perplexity. Verses 28-35 are an assurance that the city will indeed be captured and a reiteration again of the reason for its demise. The structure of the two introductions in v. 28 and v. 36 are parallel and flow out of the statement that the Lord is God of all mankind and nothing is too hard for him (neither destruction nor restoration [cf. 1:10]).

⁹ tn Heb “And now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city which you [masc. pl.] are saying has been given [prophetic perfect = will be given] into the hand of the king of Babylon through sword, starvation, and disease.” The translation attempts to render the broader structure mentioned in the study note and to break the sentence down in a way that conforms more to contemporary English style and that will lead into the speech which does not begin until the next verse. As in v. 28 the third person introduction has been changed to first person for smoother narrative style in a first person speech (i.e., vv. 27-44 are all the Lord’s answer to Jeremiah’s prayer). The words “right in” added to “are saying” are intended to reflect the connection between v. 28 and the statement here (which is a repetition of v. 24). I.e., God does not deny that Jeremiah’s assessment is correct; he affirms it but has something further to say in answer to Jeremiah’s prayer.

⁷ tn Heb “She has given her hand.” For the idiom here involving submission/surrender see BDB 680 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.z and compare the usage in 1 Chr 29:24; 2 Chr 30:8. For a different interpretation, however, see the rather complete discussion in G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, and T. G. Smothers (Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 366) who see this as a reference to making a covenant. The verb in this line and the next two lines are all Hebrew perfects and most translators and commentaries see them as past. God’s Word, however, treats them as prophetic perfects and translates them as future. This is more likely in the light of the imperatives both before and after.

⁸ tn The meaning of this word is uncertain. The definition here follows that of HALOT 91 s.v. אָשְׁיָה, which defines it on the basis of an Akkadian word and treats it as a loanword.

⁹ tn Heb “Because it is the Lord’s vengeance.” The first person has again been used because the Lord is the speaker and the nominal expression has been turned into a verbal one more in keeping with contemporary English style.