Jeremiah 26:4-6

26:4 Tell them that the Lord says, ¹  ‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws. ²  26:5 You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. ³  But you have not paid any attention to them. 26:6 If you do not obey me, ⁴  then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. ⁵  And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.’”

[26:4]  ¹ tn Heb “thus says the Lord, ‘…’.” The use of the indirect quotation in the translation eliminates one level of embedded quotation to avoid confusion.

[26:4]  ² tn Heb “by walking in my law which I set before you.”

[26:5]  ³ tn See the translator’s note on 7:13 for the idiom here.

[26:6]  ⁵ tn 26:4-6 are all one long sentence containing a long condition with subordinate clauses (vv. 4-5) and a compound consequence in v. 6: Heb “If you will not obey me by walking in my law…by paying attention to the words of the prophets which…and you did not pay heed, then I will make…and I will make…” The sentence has been broken down in conformity to contemporary English style but an attempt has been made to reflect all the subordinations in the English translation.

[26:6]  ⁶ sn See the study note on Jer 7:13.