Jeremiah 11:23

11:23 Not one of them will survive. ¹  I will bring disaster on those men from Anathoth who threatened you. ²  A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ³ 

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.” ⁴ 

The Lord affirms it! ⁵ 

Jeremiah 51:39

51:39 When their appetites are all stirred up, ⁶ 

I will set out a banquet for them.

I will make them drunk

so that they will pass out, ⁷ 

they will fall asleep forever,

they will never wake up,” ⁸ 

says the Lord. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 51:57

51:57 “I will make her officials and wise men drunk,

along with her governors, leaders, ¹⁰  and warriors.

They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,” ¹¹ 

says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all. ¹² 

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. ¹³ 

For the time is coming

when I will punish the people of Moab. ¹⁴ 

I, the Lord, affirm it! ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ¹⁶  day of the fifth month, ¹⁷  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹⁸  who served ¹⁹  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

[11:23]  ¹ tn Heb “There will be no survivors for/among them.”

[11:23]  ² tn Heb “the men of Anathoth.” For the rationale for adding the qualification see the notes on v. 21.

[11:23]  ³ tn Heb “I will bring disaster on…, the year of their punishment.”

[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.”

[51:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “When they are hot.”

[51:39]  ⁸ tc The translation follows the suggestion of KBL 707 s.v. עָלַז and a number of modern commentaries (e.g., Bright, J. A. Thompson, and W. L. Holladay) in reading יְעֻלְּפוּ (ye’ullÿfu) for יַעֲלֹזוּ (ya’alozu) in the sense of “swoon away” or “grow faint” (see KBL 710 s.v. עָלַף Pual). That appears to be the verb that the LXX (the Greek version) was reading when they translated καρωθῶσιν (karwqwsin, “they will be stupefied”). For parallel usage KBL cites Isa 51:20. This fits the context much better than “they will exult” in the Hebrew text.

[51:39]  ⁹ sn The central figure here is the figure of the cup of the Lord’s wrath (cf. 25:15-29, especially v. 26). Here the Babylonians have been made to drink so deeply of it that they fall into a drunken sleep from which they will never wake up (i.e., they die, death being compared to sleep [cf. Ps 13:3 (13:4 HT); 76:5 (76:6 HT); 90:5]). Compare the usage in Jer 51:57 for this same figure.

[51:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[51:57]  ¹⁰ sn For discussion of the terms “governors” and “leaders” see the note at Jer 51:23.

[51:57]  ¹¹ sn See the note at Jer 51:39.

[51:57]  ¹² tn For the title “Yahweh of armies” see the study note on Jer 2:19.

[48:44]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”

[48:44]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[52:12]  ¹⁶ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ¹⁷ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ¹⁸ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “stood before.”