Jeremiah 12:17 
Context| NETBible | But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” 1 says the Lord. |
| NIV © biblegateway Jer 12:17 |
But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD. |
| NASB © biblegateway Jer 12:17 |
"But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it," declares the LORD. |
| NLT © biblegateway Jer 12:17 |
But any nation who refuses to obey me will be uprooted and destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken!" |
| MSG © biblegateway Jer 12:17 |
But if they won't listen, then I'll pull them out of their land by the roots and cart them off to the dump. Total destruction!" GOD's Decree. |
| BBE © SABDAweb Jer 12:17 |
But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord. |
| NRSV © bibleoremus Jer 12:17 |
But if any nation will not listen, then I will completely uproot it and destroy it, says the LORD. |
| NKJV © biblegateway Jer 12:17 |
"But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation," says the LORD. |
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| NETBible | But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” 1 says the Lord. |
| NET Notes |
1 tn Heb “But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation, uprooting and destroying.” IBHS 590-91 §35.3.2d is likely right in seeing the double infinitive construction here as an intensifying infinitive followed by an adverbial infinitive qualifying the goal of the main verb, “uproot it in such a way as to destroy it.” However, to translate that way “literally” would not be very idiomatic in contemporary English. The translation strives for the equivalent. Likewise, to translate using the conditional structure of the original seems to put the emphasis of the passage in its context on the wrong point. |
