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Jeremiah 6:18

NETBible	So the Lord said,¹ “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.²
NIV © biblegateway Jer 6:18	Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O witnesses, what will happen to them.
NASB © biblegateway Jer 6:18	"Therefore hear, O nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.
NLT © biblegateway Jer 6:18	"Therefore, listen to this, all you nations. Take note of my people’s condition.
MSG © biblegateway Jer 6:18	And so I'm calling in the nations as witnesses: 'Watch, witnesses, what happens to them!'
BBE © SABDAweb Jer 6:18	So then, give ear, you nations, and…
NRSV © bibleoremus Jer 6:18	Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
NKJV © biblegateway Jer 6:18	Therefore hear, you nations, And know, O congregation, what is among them.
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KJV	Therefore hear <08085> (8798)_, ye nations <01471>_, and know <03045> (8798)_, O congregation <05712>_, what [is] among them.
NASB © biblegateway Jer 6:18	"Therefore <03651> hear <08085> , O nations <01471> , And know <03045> , O congregation <05712> , what <0834> is among them.
LXXM	dia <1223> PREP touto <3778> D-ASN hkousan <191> V-AAI-3P ta <3588> T-NPN eynh <1484> N-NPN kai <2532> CONJ oi <3588> T-NPM poimainontev <4165> V-PAPNP ta <3588> T-APN poimnia <4168> N-APN autwn <846> D-GPM
NET [draft] ITL	So <03651> the Lord said, “Hear <08085> , you nations <01471> ! Be witnesses and take note <03045> of what <0834> will happen to these people <05712> .
HEBREW	Mb <0> rsa <0834> ta <0853> hde <05712> yedw <03045> Mywgh <01471> wems <08085> Nkl (6:18) <03651>

NETBible

So the Lord said,¹ “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people.²

NET Notes

¹tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the flow of the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

²tn Heb “Know, congregation [or witness], what in [or against] them.” The meaning of this line is somewhat uncertain. The meaning of the noun of address in the second line (“witness,” rendered as an imperative in the translation, “Be witnesses”) is greatly debated. It is often taken as “congregation” but the lexicons and commentaries generally question the validity of reading that word since it is nowhere else applied to the nations. BDB 417 s.v. עֵדָה 3 says that the text is dubious. HALOT 747 s.v. I עֵדָה, 4 emends the text to דֵּעָה (de’ah). Several modern English versions (e.g., NIV, NCV, God’s Word) take it as the feminine singular noun “witness” (cf. BDB 729 s.v. II עֵדָה) and understand it as a collective. This solution is also proposed by J. A. Thompson (Jeremiah [NICOT], 259, n. 3) and appears to make the best sense in the context. The end of the line is very elliptical but is generally taken as either, “what I will do with/to them,” or “what is coming against them” (= “what will happen to them”) on the basis of the following context.