Jeremiah 4:12

Context

4:12 No,¹ a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding.

Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’²

Jeremiah 23:21

Context

23:21 I did not send those prophets.

Yet they were in a hurry to give their message.³

I did not tell them anything.

Yet they prophesied anyway.

Context
25:2 So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.⁴

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32:22 You kept the promise that you swore on oath to their ancestors.⁵ You gave them a land flowing with milk and honey.⁶

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40:2 The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster.

[4:12] ¹tn The word “No” is not in the text but is carried over from the connection with the preceding line “not for…”

[4:12] ²tn Heb “will speak judgments against them.”

[23:21] ³tn Heb “Yet they ran.”

[32:22] ⁷tn Heb “fathers.”

[32:22] ⁸tn For an alternative translation of the expression “a land flowing with milk and honey” see the translator’s note on 11:5.