Jeremiah 11:7

11:7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. ¹  I warned them again and again, ²  ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.

Jeremiah 25:4

25:4 Over and over again ³  the Lord has sent ⁴  his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 26:5

26:5 You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. ⁶  But you have not paid any attention to them.

Jeremiah 32:33

32:33 They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ⁷  I tried over and over again ⁸  to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 44:4

44:4 I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over ¹⁰  again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate. ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 7:13

7:13 You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. ¹²  But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent! ¹³ 

Jeremiah 7:25

7:25 From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, ¹⁴  I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, ¹⁵  day after day. ¹⁶ 

Jeremiah 25:3

25:3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah ¹⁷  until now, the Lord has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again ¹⁸  what he said. ¹⁹  But you would not listen.

Jeremiah 29:19

29:19 For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’ ²⁰  says the Lord. ²¹  ‘And you exiles ²²  have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the Lord. ²³ 

Jeremiah 35:14-15

35:14 Jonadab son of Rechab ordered his descendants not to drink wine. His orders have been carried out. ²⁴  To this day his descendants have drunk no wine because they have obeyed what their ancestor commanded them. But I ²⁵  have spoken to you over and over again, ²⁶  but you have not obeyed me! 35:15 I sent all my servants the prophets to warn you over and over again. They said, “Every one of you, stop doing the evil things you have been doing and do what is right. ²⁷  Do not pay allegiance to other gods ²⁸  and worship them. Then you can continue to live in this land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not pay any attention or listen to me.

[11:7]  ¹ tn Heb “warned them…saying, ‘Obey me.’” However, it allows the long sentence to be broken up easier if the indirect quote is used.

[11:7]  ² tn For the explanation for this rendering see the note on 7:13.

[25:4]  ³ tn For the idiom involved here see the notes at 7:13 and 11:7.

[25:4]  ⁴ tn The vav consecutive with the perfect in a past narrative is a little unusual. Here it is probably indicating repeated action in past time in keeping with the idiom that precedes and follows it. See GKC 332 §112.f for other possible examples.

[25:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “inclined your ear to hear.” This is idiomatic for “paying attention.” It is often parallel with “listen” as here or with “pay attention” (see, e.g., Prov 4:20; 51:1).

[26:5]  ⁵ tn See the translator’s note on 7:13 for the idiom here.

[32:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27.

[32:33]  ⁸ tn For the idiom involved here see the translator’s note on 7:13. The verb that introduces this clause is a Piel infinitive absolute which is functioning in place of the finite verb (see, e.g., GKC 346 §113.ff and compare usage in Jer 8:15; 14:19. This grammatical point means that the versions cited in BHS fn a may not be reading a different text after all, but may merely be interpreting the form as syntactically equivalent to a finite verb as the present translation has done.).

[32:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “But they were not listening so as to accept correction.”

[44:4]  ⁹ tn See 7:13 for an explanation of this idiom and compare 7:25; 25:4; 26:5; 29:19; 35:15 for similar references to the persistent warnings of the prophets.

[44:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sent…over again, saying, ‘Do not do this terrible thing that I hate.’” The indirect quote has been used to shorten the sentence and eliminate one level of embedded quotes.

[7:13]  ¹¹ tn This reflects a Hebrew idiom (e.g., 7:25; 11:7; 25:3, 4), i.e., an infinitive of a verb meaning “to do something early [or eagerly]” followed by an infinitive of another verb of action. Cf. HALOT 1384 s.v. שָׁכַם Hiph.2.

[7:13]  ¹² tn Heb “I called to you and you did not answer.” The words “to repent” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[7:25]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the day your ancestors…until this very day.” However, “day” here is idiomatic for “the present time.”

[7:25]  ¹⁴ tn On the Hebrew idiom see the note at 7:13.

[7:25]  ¹⁵ tc There is some textual debate about the legitimacy of this expression here. The text reads merely “day” (יוֹם, yom). BHS suggests the word is to be deleted as a dittography of the plural ending of the preceding word. The word is in the Greek and Latin, and the Syriac represents the typical idiom “day after day” as though the noun were repeated. Either יוֹם has dropped out by haplography or a ם (mem) has been left out, i.e., reading יוֹמָם (yomam, “daily”).

[25:3]  ¹⁵ sn The year referred to would be 627 b.c. The same year is referred to in 1:2 in reference to his call to be a prophet.

[25:3]  ¹⁶ tn For the idiom involved here see the notes at 7:13 and 11:7.

[25:3]  ¹⁷ tn The words “what he said” are not in the text but are implicit. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[29:19]  ¹⁷ tn See the translator’s note on 7:13 for an explanation of this idiom.

[29:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[29:19]  ¹⁹ tn The word “exiles” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the referent of “you.”

[29:19]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[35:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “The words of Jonadab son of Rechab which he commanded his descendants not to drink wine have been carried out.” (For the construction of the accusative of subject after a passive verb illustrated here see GKC 388 §121.b.) The sentence has been broken down and made more direct to better conform to contemporary English style.

[35:14]  ²⁰ tn The vav (ו) plus the independent pronoun before the verb is intended to mark a sharp contrast. It is difficult, if not impossible to mark this in English other than “But I.”

[35:14]  ²¹ tn On this idiom (which occurs again in the following verse) see the translator’s note on 7:13 for this idiom and compare its use in 7:13, 25; 11:7; 25:3, 4; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:14, 15; 44:9.

[35:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “Turn, each of you, from his [= your] wicked way and make good your deeds.” Compare 18:11 where the same idiom occurs with the added term of “make good your ways.”

[35:15]  ²² tn Heb “Don’t go after/follow other gods.” See the translator’s note on 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom and see 11:10; 13:10; 25:6 for the same idiom.