Jeremiah 4:27

4:27 All this will happen because the Lord said, ¹ 

“The whole land will be desolate;

however, I will not completely destroy it.

Jeremiah 5:18

5:18 Yet even then ²  I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 19:12

19:12 I, the Lord, say: ³  ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.

[4:27]  ¹ tn Heb “For this is what the Lord said,”

[5:18]  ² tn Heb “in those days.”

[19:12]  ³ tn This phrase (Heb “Oracle of the Lord”) has been handled this way on several occasions when it occurs within first person addresses where the Lord is the speaker. See, e.g., 16:16; 17:24; 18:6.