Discovery Box| (0.49617543835616) | (Isa 1:22) |
3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Isa 3:26) |
1 tn Heb “she will be empty, on the ground she will sit.” Jerusalem is personified as a destitute woman who sits mourning the empty city. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Isa 25:10) |
1 tn Heb “for the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain”; TEV “will protect Mount Zion”; NCV “will protect (rest on NLT) Jerusalem.” |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Isa 65:17) |
1 sn This hyperbolic statement likens the coming transformation of Jerusalem (see vv. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">18-19) to a new creation of the cosmos. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 1:16) |
3 tn Heb “on them.” The antecedent goes back to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah (i.e., the people in them) in v. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">15. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 6:6) |
3 tn Heb “Cut down its trees and build up a siege ramp against Jerusalem.” The referent has been moved forward from the second line for clarity. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 15:11) |
1 sn The |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 22:23) |
3 sn This simile has already been used in Jer 4:31; 6:24 in conjunction with Zion/Jerusalem’s judgment. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 33:6) |
2 sn Compare Jer 30:17. Jerusalem is again being personified and her political and spiritual well-being are again in view. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 51:50) |
3 tn Heb “let Jerusalem go up upon your heart.” The “heart” is often viewed as the seat of one’s mental faculties and thought life. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Jer 52:1) |
1 sn This final chapter does not mention Jeremiah, but its description of the downfall of Jerusalem and exile of the people validates the prophet’s ministry. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Lam 1:16) |
1 tn Heb “My eye, my eye.” The Hebrew text repeats the term for literary emphasis to stress the emotional distress of personified Jerusalem. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Lam 1:18) |
3 tn Heb “O peoples.” Here Jerusalem addresses the peoples of the surrounding nations (note the use of “neighbors” in the preceding verse). |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Lam 2:1) |
3 sn Chapter Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">2 continues the use of feminine epithets (e.g., “Daughter Zion”), although initially portraying Jerusalem as an object destroyed by the angered enemy, God. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Eze 5:12) |
1 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Eze 11:3) |
4 sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Mic 1:9) |
6 tn Heb “to Jerusalem.” The expression “it has contaminated” do not appear in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied to fill out the parallelism with the preceding line. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Mic 5:3) |
5 sn Gives birth. The point of the figurative language is that Jerusalem finally finds relief from her suffering. See Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">4:10. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Mic 7:11) |
1 sn Personified Jerusalem declares her confidence in vv. Jerusalem%27s&tab=notes" ver="">8-10; in this verse she is assured that she will indeed be vindicated. |
| (0.49617543835616) | (Mic 7:12) |
2 tn The masculine pronominal suffix suggests the |
