Jeremiah 7:28

7:28 So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore. ¹ 

Jeremiah 11:3

11:3 Tell them that the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse. ² 

Jeremiah 17:20

17:20 As you stand in those places ³  announce, ‘Listen, all you people who pass through these gates. Listen, all you kings of Judah, all you people of Judah and all you citizens of Jerusalem. Listen to what the Lord says. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 22:2

22:2 Say: ‘Listen, O king of Judah who follows in David’s succession. ⁵  You, your officials, and your subjects who pass through the gates of this palace must listen to what the Lord says. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 25:28

25:28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the Lord who rules over all says ⁷  ‘You most certainly must drink it! ⁸ 

Jeremiah 26:4

26:4 Tell them that the Lord says, ⁹  ‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws. ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 28:13

28:13 “Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says, ¹¹  ‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have ¹²  only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one! ¹³ 

Jeremiah 38:26

38:26 If they do this, tell ¹⁴  them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to die in the dungeon of Jonathan’s house.’” ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 51:64

51:64 Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments ¹⁶  I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’”

The prophecies of Jeremiah end here. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “Faithfulness has vanished. It is cut off from their lips.”

² tn Heb “Cursed is the person who does not listen to the terms of this covenant.” “This covenant” is further qualified in the following verse by a relative clause. The form of the sentence and the qualification “my” before covenant were chosen for better English idiom and to break up a long sentence which really extends to the middle of v. 5.

³ tn The words “As you stand there” are not in the text but are implicit in the connection. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “Listen to the word of the Lord, kings of Judah…Jerusalem who enter through these gates.” This sentence has been restructured to avoid a long complex English sentence and to put “Listen to what the Lord says” closer to the content of what he says.

⁴ tn Heb “who sits on David’s throne.”

⁵ tn Heb “Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah who sits on the throne of David, you, and your officials and your people who pass through these gates.”

⁵ tn Heb “Tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord…’” The translation is intended to eliminate one level of imbedded quote marks to help avoid confusion.

⁶ tn The translation attempts to reflect the emphatic construction of the infinitive absolute preceding the finite verb which is here an obligatory imperfect. (See Joüon 2:371-72 §113.m and 2:423 §123.h, and compare usage in Gen 15:13.)

⁶ tn Heb “thus says the Lord, ‘…’.” The use of the indirect quotation in the translation eliminates one level of embedded quotation to avoid confusion.

⁷ tn Heb “by walking in my law which I set before you.”

⁷ tn Heb “Hananiah, ‘Thus says the Lord….” The translation uses an indirect quotation here used to eliminate one level of embedded quotation.

⁸ tn The Greek version reads “I have made/put” rather than “you have made/put.” This is the easier reading and is therefore rejected.

⁹ tn Heb “the yoke bars of wood you have broken, but you have made in its stead yoke bars of iron.”

⁸ tn Verses 25-26 form a long compound, complex conditional sentence. The condition is found in v. 25 and contains a long quote. The consequence is found in v. 26 and contains another long quote. The Hebrew sentence literally reads: “And if the officials hear that I have talked with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Please tell us what you said to the king. Do not hide from us and we will not kill you [so that we will not kill you] and [tell us] what the king said to you,’ then tell them.” The sentence has been broken up to better conform with contemporary English style.

⁹ tn Heb “I was causing to fall [= presenting] my petition before the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house to die there.” The word “dungeon of” is supplied in the translation to help the reader connect this petition with Jeremiah’s earlier place of imprisonment where the officials had put him with every intention of letting him die there (37:15-16, 20).

⁹ tn Or “disaster”; or “calamity.”

¹⁰ sn The final chapter of the book of Jeremiah does not mention Jeremiah or record any of his prophecies.