Jeremiah 37:8

37:8 Then the Babylonian forces ¹  will return. They will attack the city and will capture it and burn it down.

Jeremiah 21:10

21:10 For I, the Lord, say that ²  I am determined not to deliver this city but to bring disaster on it. ³  It will be handed over to the king of Babylon and he will destroy it with fire.’” ⁴ 

Jeremiah 34:2

34:2 The Lord God of Israel told Jeremiah ⁵  to go and give King Zedekiah of Judah a message. He told Jeremiah ⁶  to tell him, “The Lord says, ‘I am going to ⁷  hand this city over to the king of Babylon and he will burn it down.

Jeremiah 34:22

34:22 For I, the Lord, affirm that ⁸  I will soon give the order and bring them back to this city. They will fight against it and capture it and burn it down. I will also make the towns of Judah desolate so that there will be no one living in them.”’”

[37:8]  ¹ tn Heb “the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the rendering “Babylonian.” The word “forces” is supplied in the translation here for the sake of clarity.

[21:10]  ² tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[21:10]  ³ tn Heb “I have set my face against this city for evil [i.e., disaster] and not for good [i.e., well-being].” For the use of the idiom “set one’s face against/toward” see, e.g., usage in 1 Kgs 2:15; 2 Kgs 2:17; Jer 42:15, 17 and note the interesting interplay of usage in Jer 44:11-12.

[21:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “he will burn it with fire.”

[34:2]  ³ tn Heb “told him”; the referent (Jeremiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “told him”; the referent (Jeremiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:2]  ⁵ tn Heb 34:1 “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord…saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I am going to….”’”’” The translation has tried to avoid some of the confusion that is created by embedding quotations within quotations by using indirect quotation in some instances; the conceptualization is the same but the style is simpler.

[34:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”