Jeremiah 1:18

1:18 I, the Lord, 1  hereby promise to make you 2  as strong as a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall. You will be able to stand up against all who live in 3  the land, including the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and all the people of the land.

Jeremiah 32:42

32:42 “For I, the Lord, say: 4  ‘I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them. 5 

1 tn See the note on “Jeremiah” at the beginning of v. 17.

2 tn Heb “today I have made you.” The Hebrew verb form here emphasizes the certainty of a yet future act; the Lord is promising to protect Jeremiah from any future attacks which may result from his faithfully carrying out his commission. See a similar use of the same Hebrew verb tense in v. 9, and see the translator’s note there.

3 tn Heb “I make you a fortified city…against all the land….” The words “as strong as” and “so you will be able to stand against all the people of…” are given to clarify the meaning of the metaphor.

4 tn Heb “For thus says the Lord.” See the translator’s notes on 32:27, 36.

5 tn Heb “As I have brought all this great disaster on these people so I will bring upon them all the good fortune which I am promising them.” The translation has broken down the longer Hebrew sentence to better conform to English style.

sn See the same guarantee in Jer 31:27.