Discovery BoxJeremiah 1:1
Context1:1 The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. 1 He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.
Jeremiah 7:7
Context7:7 If you stop doing these things, 2 I will allow you to continue to live in this land 3 which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession. 4
Jeremiah 14:4
Context14:4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked 5
because there has been no rain in the land.
The farmers, too, are dismayed
and bury their faces in their hands.
Jeremiah 14:8
Context14:8 You have been the object of Israel’s hopes.
You have saved them when they were in trouble.
Why have you become like a resident foreigner 6 in the land?
Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?
Jeremiah 15:14
Context15:14 I will make you serve your enemies 7 in a land that you know nothing about.
For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”
Jeremiah 32:41
Context32:41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them 8 firmly in the land.’
Jeremiah 33:15
Context33:15 In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant 9 of David.
“‘He will do what is just and right in the land.
Jeremiah 42:13
Context42:13 “You must not disobey the Lord your God by saying, ‘We will not stay in this land.’
Jeremiah 44:13
Context44:13 I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt with war, starvation, and disease just as I punished Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:27
Context52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed 10 at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.
So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.
[1:1] 1 tn Or “This is a record of what Jeremiah prophesied and did”; Heb “The words [or affairs] of Jeremiah.” The phrase could refer to either the messages of Jeremiah recorded in the book or to both his messages and the biographical (and autobiographical) narratives recorded about him in the book. Since the phrase is intended to serve as the title or superscription for the whole book and recurs again in 51:64 at the end of the book before the final appendix, it might refer to the latter. The expression “The words of [someone]” is a standard introductory formula (Deut 29:1[28:69]; 2 Sam 23:1; Amos 1:1; Eccl 1:1; Neh 1:1).
[7:7] 2 tn The translation uses imperatives in vv. 5-6 followed by the phrase, “If you do all this,” to avoid the long and complex sentence structure of the Hebrew sentence which has a series of conditional clauses in vv. 5-6 followed by a main clause in v. 7.
[7:7] 3 tn Heb “live in this place, in this land.”
[7:7] 4 tn Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”
[14:4] 3 tn For the use of the verb “is cracked” here see BDB 369 s.v. חָתַת Qal.1 and compare the usage in Jer 51:56 where it refers to broken bows. The form is a relative clause without relative pronoun (cf., GKC 486-87 §155.f). The sentence as a whole is related to the preceding through a particle meaning “because of” or “on account of.” Hence the subject and verb have been repeated to make the connection.
[14:8] 4 tn It would be a mistake to translate this word as “stranger.” This word (גֵּר, ger) refers to a resident alien or resident foreigner who stays in a country not his own. He is accorded the privilege of protection through the common rights of hospitality but he does not have the rights of the native born or citizen. The simile here is particularly effective. The land was the
[15:14] 5 tc This reading follows the Greek and Syriac versions and several Hebrew
[32:41] 6 tn Heb “will plant them in the land with faithfulness with all my heart and with all my soul.” The latter expressions are, of course, anthropomorphisms (see Deut 6:5).
