Jeremiah 2:11

2:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods

(even though they are not really gods at all)?

But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, ¹ 

for a god that cannot help them at all! ² 

Jeremiah 5:10

5:10 The Lord commanded the enemy, ³ 

“March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. ⁴ 

But do not destroy them completely.

Strip off their branches

for these people do not belong to the Lord. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 5:18

5:18 Yet even then ⁶  I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:28

6:28 I reported, ⁷ 

“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! ⁸ 

They are as hard as bronze or iron.

They go about telling lies.

They all deal corruptly.

Jeremiah 7:17

7:17 Do you see ⁹  what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ¹⁰ 

Jeremiah 7:19

7:19 But I am not really the one being troubled!” ¹¹  says the Lord. “Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame! ¹² 

Jeremiah 17:15

17:15 Listen to what they are saying to me. ¹³ 

They are saying, “Where are the things the Lord threatens us with?

Come on! Let’s see them happen!” ¹⁴ 

Jeremiah 22:27

22:27 You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!” ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 29:9

29:9 They are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so. ¹⁶  But I did not send them. I, the Lord, affirm it!’ ¹⁷ 

Jeremiah 30:9

30:9 But they will be subject ¹⁸  to the Lord their God

and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them. ¹⁹ 

Jeremiah 30:19

30:19 Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving ²⁰ 

and the sounds of laughter and merriment.

I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away. ²¹ 

I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.

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.’ ²² 

Jeremiah 33:6

33:6 But I will most surely ²³  heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. ²⁴  I will show them abundant ²⁵  peace and security.

Jeremiah 33:15

33:15 In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant ²⁶  of David.

“‘He will do what is just and right in the land.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “have exchanged their glory [i.e., the God in whom they glory].” This is a case of a figure of speech where the attribute of a person or thing is put for the person or thing. Compare the common phrase in Isaiah, the Holy One of Israel, obviously referring to the Lord, the God of Israel.

[2:11]  ² tn Heb “what cannot profit.” The verb is singular and the allusion is likely to Baal. See the translator’s note on 2:8 for the likely pun or wordplay.

[5:10]  ³ tn These words to not appear in the Hebrew text but have been added in the translation for the sake of clarity to identify the implied addressee.

[5:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “through her vine rows and destroy.” No object is given but “vines” must be implicit. The word for “vineyards” (or “vine rows”) is a hapax legomenon and its derivation is debated. BDB 1004 s.v. שּׁוּרָה repoints שָׁרוֹתֶיהָ (sharoteha) to שֻׁרוֹתֶיהָ (shuroteha) and relates it to a Mishnaic Hebrew and Palestinian Aramaic word meaning “row.” HALOT 1348 s.v. שּׁוּרָה also repoints to שֻׁרוֹתֶיהָ and relates it to a noun meaning “wall,” preferring to see the reference here to the walled terraces on which the vineyards were planted. The difference in meaning is minimal.

[5:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “for they do not belong to the Lord.” In the light of the context and Jeremiah’s identification of Israel as a vine (cf., e.g., 2:21) and a vineyard (cf., e.g., 12:10), it is likely that this verse has a totally metaphorical significance. The enemy is to go through the vineyard that is Israel and Judah and destroy all those who have been unfaithful to the Lord. It is not impossible, however, that the verse has a double meaning, a literal one and a figurative one: the enemy is not only to destroy Israel and Judah’s vines but to destroy Israel and Judah, lopping off the wicked Israelites who, because of their covenant unfaithfulness, the Lord has disowned. If the verse is totally metaphorical one might translate: “Pass through my vineyard, Israel and Judah, wreaking destruction. But do not destroy all of the people. Cut down like branches those unfaithful people because they no longer belong to the Lord.”

[5:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “in those days.”

[6:28]  ⁷ tn These words are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity. Some takes these words to be the continuation of the Lord’s commission of Jeremiah to the task of testing them. However, since this is the evaluation, the task appears to be complete. The words are better to be taken as Jeremiah’s report after he has completed the task.

[6:28]  ⁸ tn Or “arch rebels,” or “hardened rebels.” Literally “rebels of rebels.”

[7:17]  ⁹ tn Or “Just look at…” The question is rhetorical and expects a positive answer.

[7:17]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[7:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Is it I whom they provoke?” The rhetorical question expects a negative answer which is made explicit in the translation.

[7:19]  ¹² tn Heb “Is it not themselves to their own shame?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer which is made explicit in the translation.

[17:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “Behold, they are saying to me.”

[17:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Where is the word of the Lord. Let it come [or come to pass] please.”

[22:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “And unto the land to which they lift up their souls to return there, there they will not return.” Once again there is a sudden shift in person from the second plural to the third plural. As before the translation levels the pronouns to avoid confusion. For the idiom “to lift up the soul to” = “to long/yearn to/for” see BDB 670 s.v. נָשָׂא 1.b(9).

[29:9]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “prophesying lies to you in my name.”

[29:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[30:9]  ¹⁹ tn The word “subject” in this verse and “subjugate” are from the same root word in Hebrew. A deliberate contrast is drawn between the two powers that they will serve.

[30:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and to David their king whom I will raise up for them.”

[30:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “Out of them will come thanksgiving and a sound of those who are playful.”

[30:19]  ²² sn Compare Jer 29:6.

[31:29]  ²³ 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.

[33:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Behold I am healing.” For the usage of the particle “behold” indicating certainty see the translator’s note on 1:6. These are the great and hidden things that the Lord promised to reveal. The statements in v. 5 have been somewhat introductory. See the usage of הִנְנִי (hinni) after the introductory “Thus says the Lord” in Jer 32:28, 37.

[33:6]  ²⁶ sn Compare Jer 30:17. Jerusalem is again being personified and her political and spiritual well-being are again in view.

[33:6]  ²⁷ tn The meaning and text of this word is questioned by KBL 749 s.v. עֲתֶרֶת. However, KBL also emends both occurrences of the verb from which BDB 801 s.v. עֲתֶרֶת derives this noun. BDB is more likely correct in seeing this and the usage of the verb in Prov 27:6; Ezek 35:13 as Aramaic loan words from a root meaning to be rich (equivalent to the Hebrew עָשַׁר, ’ashar).

[33:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “sprig” or “shoot.”