17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 1 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Woe to the city of bloodshed,
the pot whose rot 2 is in it,
whose rot has not been removed 3 from it!
Empty it piece by piece.
No lot has fallen on it. 4
1 tn Heb “place.”
2 tn Or “rust.”
3 tn Heb “has not gone out.”
4 tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.