50:31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” 1
says the Lord God who rules over all. 2
“Indeed, 3 your day of reckoning 4 has come,
the time when I will punish you. 5
1 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
2 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.
3 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.
4 tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
5 sn Compare v. 27.