16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity 7 of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help 8 the poor and needy.
28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.
I threw you down to the ground;
I placed you before kings, that they might see you.
1 tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).
sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.
2 sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.
3 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
4 sn The same description of a false prophet is found in Micah 2:11.
5 sn The
6 tn Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”
7 tn Or “guilt.”
8 tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”
9 tn Heb “her prophets coat for themselves with whitewash.” The expression may be based on Ezek 13:10-15.
10 tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”
11 tn That is, the aforementioned bone.