Discovery BoxJeremiah 1:11 
Context1:11 Later the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
Jeremiah 7:15
Context7:15 And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’” 1
Jeremiah 15:21
Context15:21 “I will deliver you from the power of the wicked.
I will free you from the clutches of violent people.”
Jeremiah 31:26
Context31:26 Then they will say, ‘Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep
when I wake up and look around.’” 2
Jeremiah 32:41
Context32:41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them 3 firmly in the land.’
Jeremiah 49:38
Context49:38 I will establish my sovereignty over Elam. 4
I will destroy their king and their leaders,” 5 says the Lord. 6
Jeremiah 51:21
Context51:21 I used you to smash horses and their riders. 7
I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.
1 tn Heb “the descendants of Ephraim.” However, Ephraim here stands (as it often does) for all the northern tribes of Israel.
2 tn Or “When I, Jeremiah, heard this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very pleasant.” The text is somewhat enigmatic. It has often been explained as an indication that Jeremiah had received this communication (30:3–31:26) while in a prophetic trance (compare Dan 10:9). However, there is no other indication that this is a vision or a vision report. G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, and T. G. Smothers (Jeremiah 26-52 [WBC], 124, 128-29) suggest that this is a speech of the restored (and refreshed) exiles like that which is formally introduced in v. 23. This speech, however, is not formally introduced. This interpretation is also reflected in TEV, CEV and is accepted here as fitting the context better and demanding less presuppositions. The Hebrew text reads literally, “Upon this I awoke and looked and my sleep was sweet to me.” Keown, Scalise, and Smothers have the best discussion of these two options as well as several other options.
3 tn Heb “will plant them in the land with faithfulness with all my heart and with all my soul.” The latter expressions are, of course, anthropomorphisms (see Deut 6:5).
4 tn Or “I will sit in judgment over Elam”; Heb “I will set up my throne in Elam.” Commentators are divided over whether this refers to a king sitting in judgment over his captured enemies or whether it refers to formally establishing his rule over the country. Those who argue for the former idea point to the supposed parallels in 1:15 (which the present translation understands not to refer to this but to setting up siege) and 43:8-13. The parallelism in the verse here, however, argues that it refers to the
5 tn Heb “I will destroy king and leaders from there.”
6 tn Heb “Oracle of the
7 tn Heb “horse and its rider.” However, the terms are meant as generic or collective singulars (cf. GKC 395 §123.b) and are thus translated by the plural. The same thing is true of all the terms in vv. 21-23b. The terms in vv. 20c-d, 23c are plural.
