Jeremiah 13:6

13:6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get ¹  the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”

Jeremiah 18:17

18:17 I will scatter them before their enemies

like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind.

I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them ² 

when disaster strikes them.”

Jeremiah 20:3

20:3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’ ³ 

Jeremiah 31:27

Israel and Judah Will Be Repopulated

31:27 “Indeed, a time is coming,” ⁴  says the Lord, ⁵  “when I will cause people and animals to sprout up in the lands of Israel and Judah. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 31:29

The Lord Will Make a New Covenant with Israel and Judah

31:29 “When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’ ⁷ 

Jeremiah 31:31

31:31 “Indeed, a time is coming,” says the Lord, ⁸  “when I will make a new covenant ⁹  with the people of Israel and Judah. ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 31:38

Jerusalem Will Be Enlarged

31:38 “Indeed a time is coming,” ¹¹  says the Lord, ¹²  “when the city of Jerusalem ¹³  will be rebuilt as my special city. ¹⁴  It will be built from the Tower of Hananel westward to the Corner Gate. ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 39:17

39:17 But I will rescue you when it happens. ¹⁶  I, the Lord, affirm it! ¹⁷  You will not be handed over to those whom you fear. ¹⁸ 

Jeremiah 48:41

48:41 Her towns ¹⁹  will be captured.

Her fortresses will be taken.

At that time the soldiers of Moab will be frightened

like a woman in labor. ²⁰ 

Jeremiah 49:26

49:26 For her young men will fall in her city squares.

All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,”

says the Lord who rules over all. ²¹ 

[13:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Get from there.” The words “from there” are not necessary to the English sentence. They would lead to a redundancy later in the verse, i.e., “from there…bury there.”

[18:17]  ² tc Heb “I will show them [my] back and not [my] face.” This reading follows the suggestion of some of the versions and some of the Masoretes. The MT reads “I will look on their back and not on their faces.”

[20:3]  ³ tn This name is translated rather than transliterated to aid the reader in understanding this name and connect it clearly with the explanation that follows in the next verse. For a rather complete discussion on the significance of this name and an attempt to explain it as a pun on the name “Pashhur” see J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah (NICOT), 455, n. 35.

[31:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “Behold days are coming!” The particle “Behold” is probably used here to emphasize the reality of a fact. See the translator’s note on 1:6.

[31:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “Behold, the days are coming and [= when] I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of people and of animals.” For the significance of the metaphor see the study note.

[31:29]  ⁵ tn This word only occurs here and in the parallel passage in Ezek 18:2 in the Qal stem and in Eccl 10:10 in the Piel stem. In the latter passage it refers to the bluntness of an ax that has not been sharpened. Here the idea is of the “bluntness” of the teeth, not from having ground them down due to the bitter taste of sour grapes but to the fact that they have lost their “edge,” “bite,” or “sharpness” because they are numb from the sour taste. For this meaning for the word see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:197.

[31:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:31]  ⁷ tn Or “a renewed covenant” (also in vv. 22-23).

[31:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”

[31:38]  ⁷ tc The words “is coming” (בָּאִים, ba’im) are not in the written text (Kethib) but are supplied in the margin (Qere), in several Hebrew mss and in the versions. It is part of the idiom that also occurs in vv. 27, 31.

[31:38]  ⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[31:38]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[31:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the city will be built to [or for] the Lord.” The words “of Jerusalem” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity. However, the word occurs in a first person speech so the translation has accommodated the switch in person as it has in a number of other places (compare also NIV, TEV, ICV).

[31:38]  ¹¹ tn The word “westward” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to give some orientation.

[39:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “But I will rescue you on that day” (referring to the same day mentioned in the preceding verse).

[39:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[39:17]  ¹⁰ sn Some commentators see this as a reference to the princes from whose clutches Ebed-Melech delivered Jeremiah (38:7-13). However, it is clear that in this context it refers to those that he would fear when the Lord brings about the threatened disaster, i.e., the Babylonians who are attacking the city.

[48:41]  ⁹ tn Parallelism argues that the word קְרִיּוֹת (qÿriyyot) be understood as the otherwise unattested feminine plural of the noun קִרְיָה (qiryah, “city”) rather than the place name Kerioth mentioned in v. 24 (cf. HALOT 1065 s.v. קִרְיָה). Both this noun and the parallel term “fortresses” are plural but are found with feminine singular verbs, being treated either as collectives or distributive plurals (cf. GKC 462-63 §145.c or 464 §145.l).

[48:41]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “The heart of the soldiers of Moab will be like the heart of a woman in labor.”

[49:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Oracle of Yahweh of armies.” For this title for God see the study note on 2:19.