Jeremiah 23:3

23:3 Then I myself will regather those of my people 1  who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. 2  They will greatly increase in number.

Jeremiah 32:37

32:37 ‘I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I will have exiled 3  them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety.

Jeremiah 51:28

51:28 Prepare the nations to do battle against her. 4 

Prepare the kings of the Medes.

Prepare their governors and all their leaders. 5 

Prepare all the countries they rule to do battle against her. 6 

1 tn Heb “my sheep.”

2 tn Heb “their fold.”

3 tn The verb here should be interpreted as a future perfect; though some of the people have already been exiled (in 605 and 597 b.c.), some have not yet been exiled at the time this prophesy is given (see study note on v. 1 for the date). However, contemporary English style does not regularly use the future perfect, choosing instead to use the simple future or the simple perfect as the present translation has done here.

4 tn See the first translator’s note on 51:27 and compare also 6:4 and the study note there.

5 tn See the translator’s note at 51:23 for the rendering of the terms here.

6 tc The Hebrew text has a confusing switch of possessive pronouns in this verse: “Consecrate the nations against her, the kings of the Medes, her governors and prefects, and all the land of his dominion.” This has led to a number of different resolutions. The LXX (the Greek version) renders the word “kings” as singular and levels all the pronouns to “his,” paraphrasing the final clause and combining it with “king of the Medes” to read “and of all the earth.” The Latin Vulgate levels them all to the third masculine plural, and this is followed by the present translation as well as a number of other modern English versions (NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, NCV). The ASV and NJPS understand the feminine to refer to Media, i.e., “her governors and all her prefects” and understand the masculine in the last line to be a distributive singular referring back to the lands each of the governors and prefects ruled over. This is probably correct but since governors and prefects refer to officials appointed over provinces and vassal states it amounts to much the same interpretation that the Latin Vulgate, the present translation, and other modern English versions have given.