Jeremiah 6:30

6:30 They are regarded as ‘rejected silver’ ¹ 

because the Lord rejects them.”

Jeremiah 25:8

25:8 “Therefore, the Lord who rules over all ²  says, ‘You have not listened to what I said. ³ 

Jeremiah 29:15

29:15 “You say, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets of good news ⁴  for us here in Babylon.’

Jeremiah 46:1

Prophecies Against Foreign Nations ⁵ 

46:1 The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the nations. ⁶ 

[6:30]  ¹ tn This translation is intended to reflect the wordplay in the Hebrew text where the same root word is repeated in the two lines.

[25:8]  ² tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

[25:8]  ³ tn Heb “You have not listened to my words.”

[29:15]  ³ tn The words “of good news” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[46:1]  ⁴ sn Jeremiah was called to be a prophet not only to Judah and Jerusalem but to the nations (1:5, 10). The prophecies or oracles that are collected here in Jer 46-51 are found after 25:13a in the Greek version where they are also found in a different order and with several textual differences. The issue of which represents the original placement is part of the broader issue of the editorial or redactional history of the book of Jeremiah which went through several editions, two of which are referred to in Jer 36, i.e., the two scrolls written in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (605 b.c.), a third which included all the preceding plus the material down to the time of the fall of Jerusalem (cf. the introduction in 1:1-3) and a fourth that included all the preceding plus the materials in Jer 40-44. The oracles against the foreign nations collected here are consistent with the note of judgment sounded against all nations (including some not mentioned in Jer 46-51) in Jer 25. See the translator’s note on 25:13 for further details regarding the possible relationship of the oracles to the foreign nations to the judgment speeches in Jer 25.

[46:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “That which came [as] the word of the Lord to Jeremiah about the nations.” See the translator’s note on 14:1 for the construction here.