Jeremiah 32:42

32:42 “For I, the Lord, say: ¹  ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them. ² 

Jeremiah 37:14

37:14 Jeremiah answered, “That’s a lie! I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” ³  But Irijah would not listen to him. Irijah put Jeremiah under arrest and took him to the officials.

Jeremiah 52:9

52:9 They captured him and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah ⁴  in the territory of Hamath and he passed sentence on him there.

[32:42]  ¹ tn Heb “For thus says the Lord.” See the translator’s notes on 32:27, 36.

[32:42]  ² tn Heb “As I have brought all this great disaster on these people so I will bring upon them all the good fortune which I am promising them.” The translation has broken down the longer Hebrew sentence to better conform to English style.

[37:14]  ³ tn Heb “the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.

[52:9]  ⁵ sn Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains (2 Kgs 23:33) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.