Jeremiah 21:9

21:9 Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians who are besieging it will live. They will escape with their lives. ¹ 

Jeremiah 25:11

25:11 This whole area ²  will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’ ³ 

Jeremiah 34:20

34:20 I will hand them over to their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 39:18

39:18 I will certainly save you. You will not fall victim to violence. ⁵  You will escape with your life ⁶  because you trust in me. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” ⁷ 

Jeremiah 49:33

49:33 “Hazor will become a permanent wasteland,

a place where only jackals live. ⁸ 

No one will live there.

No human being will settle in it.” ⁹ 

Jeremiah 50:13

50:13 After I vent my wrath on it Babylon will be uninhabited. ¹⁰ 

It will be totally desolate.

All who pass by will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn

because of all the disasters that have happened to it. ¹¹ 

[21:9]  ¹ tn Heb “his life will be to him for spoil.”

[25:11]  ² tn Heb “All this land.”

[25:11]  ³ sn It should be noted that the text says that the nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years, not that they will lie desolate for seventy years. Though several proposals have been made for dating this period, many ignore this fact. This most likely refers to the period beginning with Nebuchadnezzar’s defeat of Pharaoh Necho at Carchemish in 605 b.c. and the beginning of his rule over Babylon. At this time Babylon became the dominant force in the area and continued to be so until the fall of Babylon in 538 b.c. More particularly Judah became a vassal state (cf. Jer 46:2; 2 Kgs 24:1) in 605 b.c. and was allowed to return to her homeland in 538 when Cyrus issued his edict allowing all the nations exiled by Babylon to return to their homelands. (See 2 Chr 36:21 and Ezra 1:2-4; the application there is made to Judah but the decree of Cyrus was broader.)

[34:20]  ³ sn See this same phrase in Jer 7:33; 16:4; 19:7.

[39:18]  ⁴ sn Heb “you will not fall by the sword.” In the context this would include death in battle and execution as a prisoner of war.

[39:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “your life will be to you for spoil.” For the meaning of this idiom see the study note on 21:9 and compare the usage in 21:9; 38:2; 45:4.

[39:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[49:33]  ⁵ sn Compare Jer 9:11.

[49:33]  ⁶ sn Compare Jer 49:18 and 50:40 where the same thing is said about Edom and Babylon.

[50:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “From [or Because of] the wrath of the Lord it will be uninhabited.” The causal connection is spelled out more clearly and actively and the first person has been used because the speaker is the Lord. The referent “it” has been spelled out clearly from the later occurrence in the verse, “all who pass by Babylon.”

[50:13]  ⁷ sn Compare Jer 49:17 and the study note there and see also the study notes on 18:16 and 19:8.