Jeremiah 10:15

10:15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. ¹ 

When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 51:18

51:18 They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed.

When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 11:23

11:23 Not one of them will survive. ²  I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. ³  A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ⁴ 

Jeremiah 50:27

50:27 Kill all her soldiers! ⁵ 

Let them be slaughtered! ⁶ 

They are doomed, ⁷  for their day of reckoning ⁸  has come,

the time for them to be punished.”

Jeremiah 23:12

23:12 So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.

They will stumble and fall headlong.

For I will bring disaster on them.

A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ⁹ 

The Lord affirms it! ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 8:12

8:12 Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things?

No, they are not at all ashamed!

They do not even know how to blush!

So they will die just like others have died. ¹¹ 

They will be brought to ruin when I punish them,

says the Lord.

Jeremiah 23:2

23:2 So the Lord God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people: “You have caused my people ¹²  to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. ¹³  I, the Lord, affirm it! ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 46:21

46:21 Even her mercenaries ¹⁵ 

will prove to be like pampered, ¹⁶  well-fed calves.

For they too will turn and run away.

They will not stand their ground

when ¹⁷  the time for them to be destroyed comes,

the time for them to be punished.

Jeremiah 48:44

48:44 Anyone who flees at the sound of terror

will fall into a pit.

Anyone who climbs out of the pit

will be caught in a trap. ¹⁸ 

For the time is coming

when I will punish the people of Moab. ¹⁹ 

I, the Lord, affirm it! ²⁰ 

[10:15]  ¹ tn Or “objects of mockery.”

[11:23]  ² tn Heb “There will be no survivors for/among them.”

[11:23]  ³ tn Heb “the men of Anathoth.” For the rationale for adding the qualification see the notes on v. 21.

[11:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will bring disaster on…, the year of their punishment.”

[50:27]  ³ tn Heb “Kill all her young bulls.” Commentators are almost universally agreed that the reference to “young bulls” is figurative here for the princes and warriors (cf. BDB 831 s.v. פַּר 2.f, which compares Isa 34:7 and Ezek 39:18). This is virtually certain because of the reference to the time coming for them to be punished; this would scarcely fit literal bulls. For the verb rendered “kill” here see the translator’s note on v. 21.

[50:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “Let them go down to the slaughter.”

[50:27]  ⁵ tn Or “How terrible it will be for them”; Heb “Woe to them.” See the study note on 22:13 and compare the usage in 23:1; 48:1.

[50:27]  ⁶ tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[23:12]  ⁴ tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.

[23:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[8:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “They will fall among the fallen.”

[23:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “about the shepherds who are shepherding my people. ‘You have caused my sheep….’” For the metaphor see the study note on the previous verse.

[23:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who should be shepherding my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away and you have not taken care of them. Behold I will visit upon you the evil of your deeds.” “Therefore” announces the judgment which does not come until “Behold.” It is interrupted by the messenger formula and a further indictment. The original has been broken up to conform more to contemporary English style, the metaphors have been interpreted for clarity and the connections between the indictments and the judgments have been carried by “So.”

[23:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[46:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “her hirelings in her midst.”

[46:21]  ⁸ tn The word “pampered” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation to explain the probable meaning of the simile. The mercenaries were well cared for like stall-fed calves, but in the face of the danger they will prove no help because they will turn and run away without standing their ground. Some see the point of the simile to be that they too are fattened for slaughter. However, the next two lines do not fit that interpretation too well.

[46:21]  ⁹ tn The temporal use of the particle כִּי (ki; BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 2.a) seems more appropriate to the context than the causal use.

[48:44]  ⁸ sn Jer 48:43-44a are in the main the same as Isa 24:17-18 which shows that the judgment was somewhat proverbial. For a very similar kind of argumentation see Amos 5:19; judgment is unavoidable.

[48:44]  ⁹ tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”

[48:44]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”