Jeremiah 22:27

22:27 You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!” ¹ 

Jeremiah 51:37

51:37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins.

Jackals will make their home there. ² 

It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,

a place where no one lives. ³ 

[22:27]  ¹ 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).

[51:37]  ² tn Heb “a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals.” Compare 9:11.

[51:37]  ³ tn Heb “without an inhabitant.”