50:15 Shout the battle cry from all around the city.
She will throw up her hands in surrender. 1
Her towers 2 will fall.
Her walls will be torn down.
Because I, the Lord, am wreaking revenge, 3
take out your vengeance on her!
Do to her as she has done!
50:29 “Call for archers 4 to come against Babylon!
Summon against her all who draw the bow!
Set up camp all around the city!
Do not allow anyone to escape!
Pay her back for what she has done.
Do to her what she has done to others.
For she has proudly defied me, 5
the Holy One of Israel. 6
50:31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” 7
says the Lord God who rules over all. 8
“Indeed, 9 your day of reckoning 10 has come,
the time when I will punish you. 11
1 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.
2 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.
3 tn Heb “Because it is the
4 tn For this word see BDB 914 s.v. III רַב and compare usage in Prov 26:10 and Job 16:12 and compare the usage of the verb in Gen 49:23. Based on this evidence, it is not necessary to emend the form to רֹבִים (rovim) as many commentators contend.
5 tn Heb “for she has acted insolently against the
6 sn The Holy One of Israel is a common title for the
7 tn Heb “Behold, I am against you, proud one.” The word “city” is not in the text but it is generally agreed that the word is being used as a personification of the city which had “proudly defied” the
8 tn Heb “oracle of the Lord Yahweh of armies.” For the rendering of this title and an explanation of its significance see the study note on 2:19.
9 tn The particle כִּי (ki) is probably asseverative here (so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 739, n. 13, and cf. BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 1.e for other examples). This has been a common use of this particle in the book of Jeremiah.
10 tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
11 sn Compare v. 27.