Jeremiah 42:18

42:18 For ¹  the Lord God of Israel who rules over all ²  says, ‘If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. ³  You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. ⁴  You will never see this place again.’ ⁵ 

Jeremiah 44:12

44:12 I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go ⁶  and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle ⁷  or perish from starvation. People of every class ⁸  will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 49:2

49:2 Because you did that,

I, the Lord, affirm that ¹⁰  a time is coming

when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon,

hear the sound of the battle cry.

It will become a mound covered with ruins. ¹¹ 

Its villages will be burned to the ground. ¹² 

Then Israel will take back its land

from those who took their land from them.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ¹³ 

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¹ tn Or “Indeed.”

² tn Heb “Yahweh of armies, the God of Israel.” See the study note on 2:19 for the translation and significance of this title.

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⁴ tn See the study note on 24:9 and the usage in 29:22 for the meaning and significance of this last phrase.

⁵ tn Or “land.” The reference is, of course, to the land of Judah.

⁶ tn Heb “they set their face to go.” Compare 44:11 and 42:14 and see the translator’s note at 42:15.

⁷ tn Heb “fall by the sword.”

⁸ tn Or “All of them without distinction,” or “All of them from the least important to the most important”; Heb “From the least to the greatest.” See the translator’s note on 42:1 for the meaning of this idiom.

⁹ tn See the study note on 24:9 and the usage in 29:22 for the meaning and significance of this last phrase.

sn See Jer 42:18 for parallel usage.

¹⁰ tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”

¹¹ tn Heb “a desolate tel.” For the explanation of what a “tel” is see the study note on 30:18.

¹² tn Heb “Its daughters will be burned with fire.” For the use of the word “daughters” to refer to the villages surrounding a larger city see BDB 123 s.v. I בַּת 4 and compare the usage in Judg 1:27.

¹³ tn Heb “says the Lord.” The first person is used to maintain the first person address throughout.