Jeremiah 3:25

3:25 Let us acknowledge ¹  our shame.

Let us bear the disgrace that we deserve. ² 

For we have sinned against the Lord our God,

both we and our ancestors.

From earliest times to this very day

we have not obeyed the Lord our God.’

Jeremiah 8:14

Jeremiah Laments over the Coming Destruction

8:14 The people say, ³ 

“Why are we just sitting here?

Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. ⁴ 

Let us at least die there fighting, ⁵ 

since the Lord our God has condemned us to die.

He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment ⁶ 

because we have sinned against him. ⁷ 

Jeremiah 16:10

The Lord Promises Exile (But Also Restoration)

16:10 “When you tell these people about all this, ⁸  they will undoubtedly ask you, ‘Why has the Lord threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the Lord our God?’

[3:25]  ¹ tn Heb “Let us lie down in….”

[3:25]  ² tn Heb “Let us be covered with disgrace.”

[8:14]  ³ tn The words “The people say” are not in the text but are implicit in the shift of speakers between vv. 4-13 and vv. 14-16. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “Gather together and let us enter into the fortified cities.”

[8:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “Let us die there.” The words “at least” and “fighting” are intended to bring out the contrast of passive surrender to death in the open country and active resistance to the death implicit in the context.

[8:14]  ⁶ tn The words “of judgment” are not in the text but are intended to show that “poison water” is not literal but figurative of judgment at the hands of God through the agency of the enemy mentioned in v. 16.

[8:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “against the Lord.” The switch is for the sake of smoothness in English.

[16:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “all these words/things.”