14:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people! 1
48:16 Moab’s destruction is at hand.
Disaster will come on it quickly.
48:21 “Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain: 3 on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
49:6 Yet in days to come
I will reverse Ammon’s ill fortune.” 4
says the Lord. 5
49:39 “Yet in days to come
I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” 6
says the Lord. 7
1 tn Heb “on behalf of these people for benefit.”
2 tn Heb “And unto the land to which they lift up their souls to return there, there they will not return.” Once again there is a sudden shift in person from the second plural to the third plural. As before the translation levels the pronouns to avoid confusion. For the idiom “to lift up the soul to” = “to long/yearn to/for” see BDB 670 s.v. נָשָׂא 1.b(9).
3 sn See the study note on Jer 48:8 for reference to this tableland or high plain that lay between the Arnon and Heshbon.
4 tn See Jer 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.
5 tn Heb “Oracle of the
6 tn See Jer 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.
sn See a similar note on the reversal of Moab’s fortunes in Jer 48:47 and compare also 46:26 for a future restoration of Egypt.
7 tn Heb “Oracle of the