Jeremiah 3:22
Context3:22 Come back to me, you wayward people.
I want to cure your waywardness. 1
Say, 2 ‘Here we are. We come to you
because you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 16:2
Context16:2 “Do not get married and do not have children here in this land.
Jeremiah 31:29
Context31:29 “When that time comes, people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, but the children’s teeth have grown numb.’ 3


[3:22] 1 tn Or “I will forgive your apostasies.” Heb “I will [or want to] heal your apostasies.” For the use of the verb “heal” (רָפָא, rafa’) to refer to spiritual healing and forgiveness see Hos 14:4.
[3:22] 2 tn Or “They say.” There is an obvious ellipsis of a verb of saying here since the preceding words are those of the
[31:29] 3 tn This word only occurs here and in the parallel passage in Ezek 18:2 in the Qal stem and in Eccl 10:10 in the Piel stem. In the latter passage it refers to the bluntness of an ax that has not been sharpened. Here the idea is of the “bluntness” of the teeth, not from having ground them down due to the bitter taste of sour grapes but to the fact that they have lost their “edge,” “bite,” or “sharpness” because they are numb from the sour taste. For this meaning for the word see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:197.