Jeremiah 6:11

6:11 I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, ¹ 

I am tired of trying to hold it in.”

The Lord answered, ² 

“Vent it, then, ³  on the children who play in the street

and on the young men who are gathered together.

Husbands and wives are to be included, ⁴ 

as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.

Jeremiah 7:32

7:32 So, watch out!” ⁵  says the Lord. “The time will soon come when people will no longer call those places Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom. But they will call that valley ⁶  the Valley of Slaughter and they will bury so many people in Topheth they will run out of room. ⁷ 

Jeremiah 19:6

19:6 So I, the Lord, say: ⁸  “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley ⁹  the Valley of Slaughter!

Jeremiah 28:3

28:3 Before two years are over, I will bring back to this place everything that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took from it and carried away to Babylon.

Jeremiah 28:11

28:11 Then he spoke up in the presence of all the people. “The Lord says, ‘In the same way I will break the yoke of servitude of all the nations to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon ¹⁰  before two years are over.’” After he heard this, the prophet Jeremiah departed and went on his way. ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 30:3

30:3 For I, the Lord, affirm ¹²  that the time will come when I will reverse the plight ¹³  of my people, Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord. ‘I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors ¹⁴  and they will take possession of it once again.’” ¹⁵ 

Jeremiah 32:14

32:14 ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all ¹⁶  says, “Take these documents, both the sealed copy of the deed of purchase and the unsealed copy. Put them in a clay jar so that they may be preserved for a long time to come.”’ ¹⁷ 

Jeremiah 35:7

35:7 Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. ¹⁸  Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will ¹⁹  live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ ²⁰ 

Jeremiah 49:2

49:2 Because you did that,

I, the Lord, affirm that ²¹  a time is coming

when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon,

hear the sound of the battle cry.

It will become a mound covered with ruins. ²² 

Its villages will be burned to the ground. ²³ 

Then Israel will take back its land

from those who took their land from them.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ²⁴ 

[6:11]  ¹ tn Heb “I am full of the wrath of the Lord.”

[6:11]  ² tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the words that follow. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[6:11]  ³ tn Heb “Pour it out.”

[6:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “are to be captured.”

[7:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “Therefore, behold!”

[7:32]  ⁶ tn Heb “it will no longer be said ‘Topheth’ or ‘the Valley of Ben Hinnom’ but ‘the valley of slaughter.’

[7:32]  ⁷ tn Heb “And they will bury in Topheth so there is not room.”

[19:6]  ⁹ 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.

[19:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “it will no longer be called to this place Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom but the Valley of Slaughter.”

[28:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from upon the necks of all the nations.”

[28:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.”

[30:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[30:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “restore the fortune.” For the translation and meaning of this idiom see the note at 29:14.

[30:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “fathers.”

[30:3]  ²⁰ sn As the nations of Israel and Judah were united in their sin and suffered the same fate – that of exile and dispersion – (cf. Jer 3:8; 5:11; 11:10, 17) so they will ultimately be regathered from the nations and rejoined under one king, a descendant of David, and regain possession of their ancestral lands. The prophets of both the eighth and seventh century looked forward to this ideal (see, e.g., Hos 1:11 (2:2 HT); Isa 11:11-13; Jer 23:5-6; 30:3; 33:7; Ezek 37:15-22). This has already been anticipated in Jer 3:18.

[32:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.” For this title see 7:3 and the study notes on 2:19.

[32:14]  ²² tn Heb “many days.” See BDB s.v. יוֹם 5.b for this usage.

[35:7]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Don’t plant a vineyard and it shall not be to you [= and you shall/must not have one].”

[35:7]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Don’t…and don’t…but live…in order that you might….”

[35:7]  ²⁷ sn Heb “where you are sojourning.” The terms “sojourn” and “sojourner” referred to a person who resided in a country not his own, without the rights and privileges of citizenship as a member of a nation, state, or principality. In the ancient Near East such people were dependent on the laws of hospitality rather than the laws of state for protection and provision of legal rights. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Abraham who “sojourned” among the Philistines and the Hittites in Canaan and was dependent upon them for grazing and water rights and for a place to bury his wife (cf. Gen 20-24). What is described here is the typical lifestyle of a nomadic tribe.

[49:2]  ²⁹ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

[49:2]  ³⁰ tn Heb “a desolate tel.” For the explanation of what a “tel” is see the study note on 30:18.

[49:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “Its daughters will be burned with fire.” For the use of the word “daughters” to refer to the villages surrounding a larger city see BDB 123 s.v. I בַּת 4 and compare the usage in Judg 1:27.

[49:2]  ³² tn Heb “says the Lord.” The first person is used to maintain the first person address throughout.