Jeremiah 48:47

48:47 Yet in days to come

I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” ¹ 

says the Lord. ² 

The judgment against Moab ends here.

Jeremiah 49:39

49:39 “Yet in days to come

I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” ³ 

says the Lord. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 23:20

23:20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has fully carried out his intended purposes. ⁵ 

In days to come ⁶ 

you people will come to understand this clearly. ⁷ 

Jeremiah 30:24

30:24 The anger of the Lord will not turn back

until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.

In days to come you will come to understand this. ⁸ 

[48:47]  ¹ tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[48:47]  ² tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[49:39]  ³ tn See Jer 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.

[49:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[23:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “until he has done and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart.”

[23:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the latter days.” However, as BDB 31 s.v. אַחֲרִית b suggests, the meaning of this idiom must be determined from the context. Sometimes it has remote, even eschatological, reference and other times it has more immediate reference as it does here and in Jer 30:23 where it refers to the coming days of Babylonian conquest and exile.

[23:20]  ⁷ tn The translation is intended to reflect a Hebrew construction where a noun functions as the object of a verb from the same root word (the Hebrew cognate accusative).

[30:24]  ⁷ sn Jer 30:23-24 are almost a verbatim repetition of 23:19-20. There the verses were addressed to the people of Jerusalem as a warning that the false prophets had no intimate awareness of the Lord’s plans which were plans of destruction for wicked Israel not plans of peace and prosperity. Here they function as further assurance that the Lord will judge the wicked nations oppressing them when he reverses their fortunes and restores them once again to the land as his special people (cf. vv. 18-22).