Jeremiah 10:1

The Lord, not Idols, is the Only Worthy Object of Worship

10:1 You people of Israel, 1  listen to what the Lord has to say to you.

Jeremiah 18:19

18:19 Then I said, 2 

“Lord, pay attention to me.

Listen to what my enemies are saying. 3 

Jeremiah 28:7

28:7 But listen to what I say to you and to all these people. 4 

Jeremiah 44:16

44:16 “We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us! 5 

1 tn Heb “house of Israel.”

2 tn The words “Then I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity to show that Jeremiah turns from description of the peoples’ plots to his address to God to deal with the plotters.

3 tn Heb “the voice of my adversaries.”

sn Jeremiah’s prayers against the unjust treatment of his enemies here and elsewhere (see 11:18-20; 12:1-4; 15:15-18; 17:14-18) have many of the elements of the prayers of the innocent in the book of Psalms: an invocation of the Lord as just judge, a lament about unjust attacks, an appeal to innocence, and a cry for vindication which often calls for the Lord to pay back in kind those who unjustly attack the petitioner. See for examples Pss 5, 7, 17, 54 among many others.

4 tn Heb “Listen to this word/message which I am about to speak in your ears and the ears of all these people.”

5 tn Heb “the word [or message] you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord.” For an explanation of the rendering of “in the name of the Lord” see the study notes on 10:25 and 23:27.