Jeremiah 29:27

29:27 You should have reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth who is pretending to be a prophet among you! ¹ 

Jeremiah 48:40

48:40 For the Lord says,

“Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings

a nation will swoop down on Moab. ² 

Jeremiah 50:44

50:44 “A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan

scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it.

So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land.

Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose.

For there is no one like me.

There is no one who can call me to account.

There is no ruler that can stand up against me.

Jeremiah 51:4

51:4 Let them fall ³  slain in the land of Babylonia, ⁴ 

mortally wounded in the streets of her cities. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ⁶  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ⁷  3,023 Jews;

[29:27]  ¹ tn Heb “So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah…?” The rhetorical question functions as an emphatic assertion made explicit in the translation.

[48:40]  ² tn Heb “Behold! Like an eagle he will swoop and will spread his wings against Moab.” The sentence has been reordered in English to give a better logical flow and the unidentified “he” has been identified as “a nation.” The nation is, of course, Babylon, but it is nowhere identified so the referent has been left ambiguous.

[51:4]  ³ tn The majority of English versions and the commentaries understand the vav (ו) consecutive + perfect as a future here “They will fall.” However, it makes better sense in the light of the commands in the previous verse to understand this as an indirect third person command (= a jussive; see GKC 333 §112.q, r) as REB and NJPS do.

[51:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.

[51:4]  ⁵ tn The words “cities” is not in the text. The text merely says “in her streets” but the antecedent is “land” and must then refer to the streets of the cities in the land.

[52:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “these are the people.”

[52:28]  ⁵ sn This would be 597 b.c.