Discovery BoxJeremiah 44:6
Context44:6 So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’
Jeremiah 4:4
Context4:4 Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin
as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment,
you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the Lord
and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, 1
people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
If you do not, 2 my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you
that no one will be able to extinguish.
That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
Jeremiah 21:12
Context21:12 O royal family descended from David. 3
The Lord says:
‘See to it that people each day 4 are judged fairly. 5
Deliver those who have been robbed from those 6 who oppress them.
Otherwise, my wrath will blaze out against you.
It will burn like a fire that cannot be put out
because of the evil that you have done. 7
Jeremiah 32:31
Context32:31 This will happen because 8 the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now. 9 They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove 10 it from my sight.
Jeremiah 42:18
Context42:18 For 11 the Lord God of Israel who rules over all 12 says, ‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. 13 You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. 14 You will never see this place again.’ 15
[4:4] 1 tn Heb “Circumcise yourselves to the
[21:12] 1 tn Heb “house of David.” This is essentially equivalent to the royal court in v. 11.
[21:12] 2 tn Heb “to the morning” = “morning by morning” or “each morning.” See Isa 33:2 and Amos 4:4 for parallel usage.
[21:12] 3 sn The kings of Israel and Judah were responsible for justice. See Pss 122:5. The king himself was the final court of appeals judging from the incident of David with the wise woman of Tekoa (2 Sam 14), Solomon and the two prostitutes (1 Kgs 3:16-28), and Absalom’s attempts to win the hearts of the people of Israel by interfering with due process (2 Sam 15:2-4). How the system was designed to operate may be seen from 2 Chr 19:4-11.
[21:12] 4 tn Heb “from the hand [or power] of.”
[21:12] 5 tn Heb “Lest my wrath go out like fire and burn with no one to put it out because of the evil of your deeds.”
[32:31] 1 tn The statements in vv. 28-29 regarding the certain destruction of the city are motivated by three parallel causal clauses in vv. 30a, b, 31, the last of which extends through subordinate and coordinate clauses until the end of v. 35. An attempt has been made to bring out this structure by repeating the idea “This/it will happen” in front of each of these causal clauses in the English translation.
[32:31] 2 tn Heb “from the day they built it until this day.”
[32:31] 3 tn Heb “For this city has been to me for a source of my anger and my wrath from the day they built it until this day so as remove it.” The preposition ְל (lamed) with the infinitive (Heb “so as to remove it”; לַהֲסִירָהּ, lahasirah) expresses degree (cf. R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 37, §199, and compare usage in 2 Sam 13:2).
[42:18] 2 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.” See the study note on 2:19 for the translation and significance of this title.
[42:18] 3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[42:18] 4 tn See the study note on 24:9 and the usage in 29:22 for the meaning and significance of this last phrase.
[42:18] 5 tn Or “land.” The reference is, of course, to the land of Judah.
