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Jeremiah 3:2

Context

3:2 “Look up at the hilltops and consider this. 1 

You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. 2 

You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. 3 

You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods. 4 

Jeremiah 6:16

Context

6:16 The Lord said to his people: 5 

“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. 6 

Ask where the old, reliable paths 7  are.

Ask where the path is that leads to blessing 8  and follow it.

If you do, you will find rest for your souls.”

But they said, “We will not follow it!”

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[3:2]  1 tn Heb “and see.”

[3:2]  2 tn Heb “Where have you not been ravished?” The rhetorical question expects the answer “nowhere,” which suggests she has engaged in the worship of pagan gods on every one of the hilltops.

[3:2]  3 tn Heb “You sat for them [the lovers, i.e., the foreign gods] beside the road like an Arab in the desert.”

[3:2]  4 tn Heb “by your prostitution and your wickedness.” This is probably an example of hendiadys where, when two nouns are joined by “and,” one expresses the main idea and the other qualifies it.

[6:16]  5 tn The words, “to his people” are not in the text but are implicit in the interchange of pronouns in the Hebrew of vv. 16-17. They are supplied in the translation here for clarity.

[6:16]  6 tn Heb “Stand at the crossroads and look.”

[6:16]  7 tn Heb “the ancient path,” i.e., the path the Lord set out in ancient times (cf. Deut 32:7).

[6:16]  8 tn Heb “the way of/to the good.”



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