Jeremiah 5:15

5:15 The Lord says, ¹  “Listen, ²  nation of Israel! ³ 

I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you.

It will be a nation that was founded long ago

and has lasted for a long time.

It will be a nation whose language you will not know.

Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.

Jeremiah 6:19

6:19 Hear this, you peoples of the earth: ⁴ 

‘Take note! ⁵  I am about to bring disaster on these people.

It will come as punishment for their scheming. ⁶ 

For they have paid no attention to what I have said, ⁷ 

and they have rejected my law.

Jeremiah 19:3

19:3 Say, ‘Listen to what the Lord says, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! ⁸  The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ⁹  says, “I will bring a disaster on this place ¹⁰  that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it ring! ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 19:15

19:15 “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹²  says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it ¹³  all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused ¹⁴  to pay any attention to what I have said!’”

Jeremiah 32:42

32:42 “For I, the Lord, say: ¹⁵  ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them. ¹⁶ 

Jeremiah 39:16

39:16 “Go ¹⁷  and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. ¹⁸  When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it. ¹⁹ 

Jeremiah 42:17

42:17 All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 45:5

45:5 Are you looking for great things for yourself? Do not look for such things. For I, the Lord, affirm ²⁰  that I am about to bring disaster on all humanity. ²¹  But I will allow you to escape with your life ²²  wherever you go.”’”

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[5:15]  ² tn Heb “Behold!”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “house of Israel.”

[6:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “earth.”

[6:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “Behold!”

[6:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “disaster on these people, the fruit of their schemes.”

[6:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “my word.”

[19:3]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”

[19:3]  ⁹ sn Careful comparison of the use of this term throughout this passage and comparison with 7:31-33 which is parallel to several verses in this passage will show that the reference is to the Valley of Ben Hinnom which will become a Valley of Slaughter (see v. 6 and 7:32).

[19:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “which everyone who hears it [or about it] his ears will ring.” This is proverbial for a tremendous disaster. See 1 Sam 3:11; 2 Kgs 21:12 for similar prophecies.

[19:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.”

[19:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all its towns.”

[19:15]  ¹² tn Heb “They hardened [or made stiff] their neck so as not to.”

[32:42]  ¹³ tn Heb “For thus says the Lord.” See the translator’s notes on 32:27, 36.

[32:42]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “As I have brought all this great disaster on these people so I will bring upon them all the good fortune which I am promising them.” The translation has broken down the longer Hebrew sentence to better conform to English style.

[39:16]  ¹⁶ sn Even though Jeremiah was confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse, he was still free to entertain visitors (32:2, 8). Moreover, Ebed-Melech was an official attached to the royal court and would have had access to the courtyard of the guardhouse (38:7, 13). Jeremiah would not have had to leave the courtyard of the guardhouse to “go and tell” him something.

[39:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Behold, I will bring to pass my words against this city for evil/disaster and not for good/good fortune.” For the form of the verb מֵבִי ([mevi] Kethib, מֵבִיא [mevi’] Qere) see GKC 206-7 §74.k, where the same form is noted for the Kethib in 2 Sam 5:2; 1 Kgs 21:21; Jer 19:15 all of which occur before a word beginning with א. For the nuance “carry out” (or “bring to pass”) see BDB 99 s.v. בּוֹא Hiph.2.b.

[39:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “And they [= my words for disaster] will come to pass [= happen] before you on that day [i.e., the day that I bring them to pass/carry them out].”

[45:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[45:5]  ²⁰ sn Compare Jer 25:31, 33. The reference here to universal judgment also forms a nice transition to the judgments on the nations that follow in Jer 46-51 which may be another reason for the placement of this chapter here, out of its normal chronological order (see also the study note on v. 1).

[45:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “I will give you your life for a spoil.” For this idiom see the translator’s note on 21:9 and compare the usage in 21:9; 38:2; 39:18.