Jeremiah 3:21

3:21 “A noise is heard on the hilltops.

It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods.

Indeed they have followed sinful ways; ¹ 

they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God. ² 

Jeremiah 17:18

17:18 May those who persecute me be disgraced.

Do not let me be disgraced.

May they be dismayed.

Do not let me be dismayed.

Bring days of disaster on them.

Bring on them the destruction they deserve.” ³ 

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.” ⁴ 

The Lord affirms it! ⁵ 

Jeremiah 46:25

46:25 The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ⁶  says, “I will punish Amon, the god of Thebes. ⁷  I will punish Egypt, its gods, and its kings. I will punish Pharaoh and all who trust in him. ⁸ 

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ⁹  day of the fifth month, ¹⁰  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹¹  who served ¹²  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

[3:21]  ¹ tn Heb “A sound is heard on the hilltops, the weeping of the supplication of the children of Israel because [or indeed] they have perverted their way.” At issue here is whether the supplication is made to Yahweh in repentance because of what they have done or whether it is supplication to the pagan gods which is evidence of their perverted ways. The reference in this verse to the hilltops where idolatry was practiced according to 3:2 and the reference to Israel’s unfaithfulness in the preceding verse make the latter more likely. For the asseverative use of the Hebrew particle (here rendered “indeed”) where the particle retains some of the explicative nuance; cf. BDB 472-73 s.v. כִּי 1.e and 3.c.

[3:21]  ² tn Heb “have forgotten the Lord their God,” but in the view of the parallelism and the context, the word “forget” (like “know” and “remember”) involves more than mere intellectual activity.

[17:18]  ³ tn Or “complete destruction.” See the translator’s note on 16:18.

[23:12]  ⁵ tn For the last two lines see 11:23 and the notes there.

[23:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[46:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.” For the significance of this title see the note at 2:19.

[46:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “Amon of No.”

[46:25]  ⁹ tc Heb “Behold I will punish Amon of No and Pharaoh and Egypt and its gods and its kings and Pharaoh and all who trust in him.” There appears to be a copyist slip involving a double writing of וְעַל־פַּרְעֹה (vÿ’al-par’oh). The present translation has followed the suggestion of BHS and deleted the first one since the second is necessary for the syntactical connection, “Pharaoh and all who trust in him.”

[52:12]  ⁹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ¹⁰ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ¹¹ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ¹² tn Heb “stood before.”