Jeremiah 6:11

6:11 I am as full of anger as you are, Lord, 1 

I am tired of trying to hold it in.”

The Lord answered, 2 

“Vent it, then, 3  on the children who play in the street

and on the young men who are gathered together.

Husbands and wives are to be included, 4 

as well as the old and those who are advanced in years.

Jeremiah 37:21

37:21 Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread 5  be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept 6  in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

1 tn Heb “I am full of the wrath of the Lord.”

2 tn These words are not in the text but are implicit from the words that follow. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

3 tn Heb “Pour it out.”

4 tn Heb “are to be captured.”

5 tn Heb “And/Then King Zedekiah ordered and they committed Jeremiah to [or deposited…in] the courtyard of the guardhouse and they gave to him a loaf of bread.” The translation has been structured the way it has to avoid the ambiguous “they” which is the impersonal subject which is sometimes rendered passive in English (cf. GKC 460 §144.d). This text also has another example of the vav (ו) + infinitive absolute continuing a finite verbal form (וְנָתֹן [vÿnaton] = “and they gave”; cf. GKC 345 §113.y and see Jer 32:44; 36:23).

6 tn Heb “Stayed/Remained/ Lived.”