Jeremiah 25:31

25:31 The sounds of battle ¹  will resound to the ends of the earth.

For the Lord will bring charges against the nations. ² 

He will pass judgment on all humankind

and will hand the wicked over to be killed in war.’ ³ 

The Lord so affirms it! ⁴ 

Jeremiah 28:6

28:6 The prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do all this! May the Lord make your prophecy come true! May he bring back to this place from Babylon all the valuable articles taken from the Lord’s temple and the people who were carried into exile.

Jeremiah 32:19

32:19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. ⁵  You see everything people do. ⁶  You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. ⁷ 

Jeremiah 36:3

36:3 Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them, they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. ⁸  If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.” ⁹ 

Jeremiah 44:27

44:27 I will indeed ¹⁰  see to it that disaster, not prosperity, happens to them. ¹¹  All the people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will die in war or from starvation until not one of them is left.

Jeremiah 47:4

47:4 For the time has come

to destroy all the Philistines.

The time has come to destroy all the help

that remains for Tyre ¹²  and Sidon. ¹³ 

For I, the Lord, will ¹⁴  destroy the Philistines,

that remnant that came from the island of Crete. ¹⁵ 

[25:31]  ¹ tn For the use of this word see Amos 2:2; Hos 10:14; Ps 74:23. See also the usage in Isa 66:6 which is very similar to the metaphorical usage here.

[25:31]  ² tn Heb “the Lord has a lawsuit against the nations.” For usage of the term see Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2, and compare the usage of the related verb in Jer 2:9; 12:1.

[25:31]  ³ tn Heb “give the wicked over to the sword.”

[25:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[32:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “[you are] great in counsel and mighty in deed.”

[32:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “your eyes are open to the ways of the sons of men.”

[32:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”

[36:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “will turn each one from his wicked way.”

[36:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “their iniquity and their sin.”

[44:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “Behold I.” For the use of this particle see the translator’s note on 1:6. Here it announces the reality of a fact.

[44:27]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Behold, I am watching over them for evil/disaster/harm not for good/prosperity/ blessing.” See a parallel usage in 31:28.

[47:4]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[47:4]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[47:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “For the Lord will.” The first person style has been adopted because the Lord is speaking (cf. v. 2).

[47:4]  ²⁰ sn All the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon and that remnant that came from the island of Crete appear to be two qualifying phrases that refer to the Philistines, the last with regard to their origin and the first with regard to the fact that they were allies that Tyre and Sidon depended on. “Crete” is literally “Caphtor” which is generally identified with the island of Crete. The Philistines had come from there (Amos 9:7) in the wave of migration from the Aegean Islands during the twelfth and eleventh century and had settled on the Philistine plain after having been repulsed from trying to enter Egypt.