Jeremiah 11:22

11:22 So the Lord who rules over all ¹  said, “I will surely ²  punish them! Their young men will be killed in battle. ³  Their sons and daughters will die of starvation.

Jeremiah 17:18

17:18 May those who persecute me be disgraced.

Do not let me be disgraced.

May they be dismayed.

Do not let me be dismayed.

Bring days of disaster on them.

Bring on them the destruction they deserve.” ⁴ 

Jeremiah 18:20

18:20 Should good be paid back with evil?

Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. ⁵ 

Just remember how I stood before you

pleading on their behalf ⁶ 

to keep you from venting your anger on them. ⁷ 

Jeremiah 18:22

18:22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses

when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. ⁸ 

For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me

and have hidden traps for me to step into.

Jeremiah 23:4

23:4 I will install rulers ⁹  over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. ¹⁰  I, the Lord, promise it! ¹¹ 

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.” ¹² 

The Lord affirms it! ¹³ 

Jeremiah 24:6

24:6 I will look after their welfare ¹⁴  and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land ¹⁵  and will not uproot them. ¹⁶ 

Jeremiah 44:27

44:27 I will indeed ¹⁷  see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them. ¹⁸  All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.

Jeremiah 49:29

49:29 Their tents and their flocks will be taken away.

Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off.

People will shout ¹⁹  to them,

‘Terror is all around you!’” ²⁰ 

[11:22]  ¹ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

[11:22]  ² tn Heb “Behold I will.” For the function of this particle see the translator’s note on 1:6.

[11:22]  ³ tn Heb “will die by the sword.” Here “sword” stands contextually for “battle” while “starvation” stands for death by starvation during siege.

[17:18]  ⁴ tn Or “complete destruction.” See the translator’s note on 16:18.

[18:20]  ⁷ tn Or “They are plotting to kill me”; Heb “They have dug a pit for my soul.” This is a common metaphor for plotting against someone. See BDB 500 s.v. כָּרָה Qal and for an example see Pss 7:16 (7:15 HT) in its context.

[18:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “to speak good concerning them” going back to the concept of “good” being paid back with evil.

[18:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “to turn back your anger from them.”

[18:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “when you bring marauders in against them.” For the use of the noun translated here “bands of raiders to plunder them” see 1 Sam 30:3, 15, 23 and BDB 151 s.v. גְּדוּד 1.

[23:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “shepherds.”

[23:4]  ¹⁴ tn There are various nuances of the word פָּקַד (paqad) represented in vv. 2, 4. See Ps 8:4 (8:5 HT) and Zech 10:3 for “care for/take care of” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.A.1.a). See Exod 20:5; Amos 3:2; Jer 9:24; 11:22 for “punish” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Qal.A.3). See 1 Kgs 20:39 and 2 Kgs 10:19 for “be missing” (cf. BDB 823 s.v. פָּקַד Niph.1).

[23:4]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[23:12]  ¹⁶ tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.

[23:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[24:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I will set my eyes upon them for good.” For the nuance of “good” see Jer 21:10; Amos 9:4 (in these cases the opposite of harm; see BDB 375 s.v. טוֹבָה 1).

[24:6]  ²⁰ tn The words “There” and “firmly in the land” are not in the text but are implicit from the connection and the metaphor. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:6]  ²¹ sn For these terms see Jer 1:10.

[44:27]  ²² tn Heb “Behold I.” For the use of this particle see the translator’s note on 1:6. Here it announces the reality of a fact.

[44:27]  ²³ tn Heb “Behold, I am watching over them for evil/disaster/harm not for good/prosperity/ blessing.” See a parallel usage in 31:28.

[49:29]  ²⁵ tn Or “Let their tents…be taken….Let their tent…be carried…. Let people shout….”

[49:29]  ²⁶ sn This expression is a favorite theme in the book of Jeremiah. It describes the terrors of war awaiting the people of Judah and Jerusalem (6:25), the Egyptians at Carchemish (46:5), and here the Kedarites.