Jeremiah 30:14

30:14 All your allies have abandoned you. ¹ 

They no longer have any concern for you.

For I have attacked you like an enemy would.

I have chastened you cruelly.

For your wickedness is so great

and your sin is so much. ² 

Isaiah 13:18

13:18 Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; ³ 

they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, ⁴ 

they will not ⁵  look with pity on children.

Isaiah 19:4

19:4 I will hand Egypt over to a harsh master;

a powerful king will rule over them,”

says the sovereign master, ⁶  the Lord who commands armies.

[30:14]  ¹ tn Heb “forgotten you.”

[30:14]  ² tn Heb “attacked you like…with the chastening of a cruel one because of the greatness of your iniquity [and because] your sins are many.” The sentence has been broken down to conform to contemporary English style and better poetic scansion.

[13:18]  ³ tn Heb “and bows cut to bits young men.” “Bows” stands by metonymy for arrows.

[13:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “the fruit of the womb.”

[13:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “their eye does not.” Here “eye” is a metonymy for the whole person.

[19:4]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).