Jeremiah 3:22
3:22 Come back to me, you wayward people.
I want to cure your waywardness. 1
Say, 2 ‘Here we are. We come to you
because you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 38:21
38:21 But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:
Jeremiah 42:9
42:9 Then Jeremiah said to them, “You sent me to the Lord God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you: 3
Jeremiah 42:19
42:19 “The Lord has told you people who remain in Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Be very sure of this: I warn you 4 here and now. 5
Jeremiah 48:47
48:47 Yet in days to come
I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” 6
says the Lord. 7
The judgment against Moab ends here.
Jeremiah 52:28
52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people 8 Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, 9 3,023 Jews;
1 tn Or “I will forgive your apostasies.” Heb “I will [or want to] heal your apostasies.” For the use of the verb “heal” (רָפָא, rafa’) to refer to spiritual healing and forgiveness see Hos 14:4.
2 tn Or “They say.” There is an obvious ellipsis of a verb of saying here since the preceding words are those of the Lord and the following are those of the people. However, there is debate about whether these are the response of the people to the Lord’s invitation, a response which is said to be inadequate according to the continuation in 4:1-4, or whether these are the Lord’s model for Israel’s confession of repentance to which he adds further instructions about the proper heart attitude that should accompany it in 4:1-4. The former implies a dialogue with an unmarked twofold shift in speaker between 3:22b-25 and 4:1-4:4 while the latter assumes the same main speaker throughout with an unmarked instruction only in 3:22b-25. This disrupts the flow of the passage less and appears more likely.
3 tn Heb “Thus says the Lord God of Israel to whom you sent me to present your petition before him, ‘…’” The sentence has been restructured to cut down on the length of the introduction leading in to the long quote.
sn Their “request” is that Jeremiah would tell them where to go and what to do (v. 3).
4 tn Heb “Know for certain that I warn you…” The idea of “for certain” is intended to reflect the emphatic use of the infinitive absolute before the volitive use of the imperfect (see IBHS 587-88 §35.3.1h and 509 §31.5b). The substitution “of this:” for “that” has been made to shorten the sentence in conformity with contemporary English style.
5 tn Heb “today.”
6 tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.
7 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
8 tn Heb “these are the people.”
9 sn This would be 597 b.c.