Jeremiah 5:16

5:16 All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. ¹ 

Their arrows will send you to your grave. ² 

Jeremiah 5:22

5:22 “You should fear me!” says the Lord.

“You should tremble in awe before me! ³ 

I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea,

a permanent barrier that it can never cross.

Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail.

They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.” ⁴ 

Jeremiah 6:5

6:5 So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night

and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

[5:16]  ¹ tn Heb “All of them are mighty warriors.”

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “his quiver [is] an open grave.” The order of the lines has been reversed to make the transition from “nation” to “their arrows” easier.

[5:22]  ³ tn Heb “Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in awe before me?” The rhetorical questions expect the answer explicit in the translation.

[5:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “it.” The referent is made explicit to avoid any possible confusion.