Jeremiah 6:21

6:21 So, this is what the Lord says:

‘I will assuredly ¹  make these people stumble to their doom. ² 

Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. ³ 

Friends and neighbors will die.’

Jeremiah 16:3

16:3 For I, the Lord, tell you what will happen to ⁴  the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 25:21

25:21 all the people of Edom, ⁶  Moab, ⁷  Ammon; ⁸ 

[6:21]  ¹ tn This is an attempt to render the Hebrew particle rendered “behold” joined to the first person pronoun.

[6:21]  ² tn Heb “I will put stumbling blocks in front of these people.” In this context the stumbling blocks are the invading armies.

[6:21]  ³ tn The words “and fall to their destruction” are implicit in the metaphor and are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[16:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “For thus says the Lord concerning…”

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in the place and concerning their mothers who give them birth and their fathers who fathered them in this land.”

[25:21]  ⁷ sn See further Jer 49:7-22 for the judgment against Edom. Edom, Moab, and Ammon were east of Judah.

[25:21]  ⁸ sn See further Jer 48:1-47 for the judgment against Moab.

[25:21]  ⁹ sn See further Jer 49:1-6 for the judgment against Ammon.