Jeremiah 4:18

4:18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done ¹ 

will bring this on you.

This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. ² 

The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.” ³ 

Jeremiah 7:3

7:3 The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ⁴  says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. ⁵  If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 7:5

7:5 You must change ⁷  the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. ⁸ 

Jeremiah 26:3

26:3 Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. ⁹  If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them ¹⁰  as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 26:13

26:13 But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. ¹²  Obey the Lord your God. If you do, the Lord will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would. ¹³ 

Jeremiah 32:19

32:19 You plan great things and you do mighty deeds. ¹⁴  You see everything people do. ¹⁵  You reward each of them for the way they live and for the things they do. ¹⁶ 

[4:18]  ¹ tn Heb “Your way and your deeds.”

[4:18]  ² tn Heb “How bitter!”

[4:18]  ³ tn Heb “Indeed, it reaches to your heart.” The subject must be the pain alluded to in the last half of the preceding line; the verb is masculine, agreeing with the adjective translated “painful.” The only other possible antecedent “punishment” is feminine.

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God Israel.”

[7:3]  ⁵ tn Or “Make good your ways and your actions.” J. Bright’s translation (“Reform the whole pattern of your conduct”; Jeremiah [AB], 52) is excellent.

[7:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “place” but this might be misunderstood to refer to the temple.

[7:5]  ⁷ tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[7:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[26:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will turn from his wicked way.”

[26:3]  ¹¹ tn For the idiom and translation of terms involved here see 18:8 and the translator’s note there.

[26:3]  ¹² tn Heb “because of the wickedness of their deeds.”

[26:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “Make good your ways and your actions.” For the same expression see 7:3, 5; 18:11.

[26:13]  ¹⁴ tn For the idiom and translation of terms involved here see 18:8 and the translator’s note there.

[32:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “[you are] great in counsel and mighty in deed.”

[32:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “your eyes are open to the ways of the sons of men.”

[32:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “giving to each according to his way [= behavior/conduct] and according to the fruit of his deeds.”