15:20 I will make you as strong as a wall to these people,
a fortified wall of bronze.
They will attack you,
but they will not be able to overcome you.
For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” 1
says the Lord.
30:10 So I, the Lord, tell you not to be afraid,
you descendants of Jacob, my servants. 2
Do not be terrified, people of Israel.
For I will rescue you and your descendants
from a faraway land where you are captives. 3
The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.
They will be secure and no one will terrify them. 4
30:11 For I, the Lord, affirm 5 that
I will be with you and will rescue you.
I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you.
But I will not completely destroy you.
I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure.
I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.” 6
46:27 7 “You descendants of Jacob, my servants, 8 do not be afraid;
do not be terrified, people of Israel.
For I will rescue you and your descendants
from the faraway lands where you are captives. 9
The descendants of Jacob will return to their land and enjoy peace.
They will be secure and no one will terrify them.
50:34 But the one who will rescue them 10 is strong.
He is known as the Lord who rules over all. 11
He will strongly 12 champion their cause.
As a result 13 he will bring peace and rest to the earth,
but trouble and turmoil 14 to the people who inhabit Babylonia. 15
1 sn See 1:18. The
2 tn Heb “So do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, oracle of the
3 tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”
4 sn Compare the ideals of the Mosaic covenant in Lev 26:6, the Davidic covenant in 2 Sam 7:10-11, and the new covenant in Ezek 34:25-31.
5 tn Heb “Oracle of the
6 tn The translation “entirely unpunished” is intended to reflect the emphatic construction of the infinitive absolute before the finite verb.
7 sn Jer 46:27-28 are virtually the same as 30:10-11. The verses are more closely related to that context than to this. But the presence of a note of future hope for the Egyptians may have led to a note of encouragement also to the Judeans who were under threat of judgment at the same time (cf. the study notes on 46:2, 13 and 25:1-2 for the possible relative dating of these prophecies).
8 tn Heb “And/But you do not be afraid, my servant Jacob.” Here and elsewhere in the verse the terms Jacob and Israel are poetic for the people of Israel descended from the patriarch Jacob. The terms have been supplied throughout with plural referents for greater clarity.
9 tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”
10 sn Heb “their redeemer.” The Hebrew term “redeemer” referred in Israelite family law to the nearest male relative who was responsible for securing the freedom of a relative who had been sold into slavery. For further discussion of this term as well as its metaphorical use to refer to God as the one who frees Israel from bondage in Egypt and from exile in Assyria and Babylonia see the study note on 31:11.
11 tn Heb “Yahweh of armies is his name.” For the rendering of this title see the study note on 2:19.
12 tn Or “he will certainly champion.” The infinitive absolute before the finite verb here is probably functioning to intensify the verb rather than to express the certainty of the action (cf. GKC 333 §112.n and compare usage in Gen 43:3 and 1 Sam 20:6 listed there).
13 tn This appears to be another case where the particle לְמַעַן (lÿma’an) introduces a result rather than giving the purpose or goal. See the translator’s note on 25:7 for a listing of other examples in the book of Jeremiah and also the translator’s note on 27:10.
14 tn Heb “he will bring rest to the earth and will cause unrest to.” The terms “rest” and “unrest” have been doubly translated to give more of the idea underlying these two concepts.
15 tn This translation again reflects the problem often encountered in these prophecies where the