Jeremiah 23:12

23:12 So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery.

They will stumble and fall headlong.

For I will bring disaster on them.

A day of reckoning is coming for them.” ¹ 

The Lord affirms it! ² 

Jeremiah 46:6

46:6 But even the swiftest cannot get away.

Even the strongest cannot escape. ³ 

There in the north by the Euphrates River

they stumble and fall in defeat. ⁴ 

[23:12]  ¹ tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.

[23:12]  ² tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[46:6]  ³ tn The translation assumes that the adjectives with the article are functioning as superlatives in this context (cf. GKC 431 §133.g). It also assumes that אַל (’al) with the jussive is expressing here an emphatic negative rather than a negative wish (cf. GKC 317 §107.p and compare the usage in Ps 50:3).

[46:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “they stumble and fall.” However, the verbs here are used of a fatal fall, of a violent death in battle (see BDB 657 s.v. נָפַל Qal.2.a), and a literal translation might not be understood by some readers.