Discovery BoxJeremiah 1:7 
Context1:7 The Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ But go 1 to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.
Jeremiah 3:5
Context3:5 You will not always be angry with me, will you?
You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ 2
That is what you say,
but you continually do all the evil that you can.” 3
Jeremiah 4:29
Context4:29 At the sound of the approaching horsemen and archers
the people of every town will flee.
Some of them will hide in the thickets.
Others will climb up among the rocks.
All the cities will be deserted.
No one will remain in them.
Jeremiah 7:25
Context7:25 From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, 4 I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, 5 day after day. 6
Jeremiah 11:12
Context11:12 Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will 7 go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means 8 be able to save them when disaster strikes them.
Jeremiah 21:14
Context21:14 But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’
says the Lord. 9
‘I will set fire to your palace;
it will burn up everything around it.’” 10
Jeremiah 36:8
Context36:8 So Baruch son of Neriah did exactly what the prophet Jeremiah had told him to do. He read what the Lord had said from the scroll in the temple of the Lord. 11
Jeremiah 50:32
Context50:32 You will stumble and fall, you proud city;
no one will help you get up.
I will set fire to your towns;
it will burn up everything that surrounds you.” 12
1 tn Or “For you must go and say.” The Hebrew particle כִּי (ki) is likely adversative here after a negative statement (cf. BDB 474 s.v. כִּי 3.e). The
2 tn Heb “Will he keep angry forever? Will he maintain [it] to the end?” The questions are rhetorical and expect a negative answer. The change to direct address in the English translation is intended to ease the problem of the rapid transition, common in Hebrew style (but not in English), from second person direct address in the preceding lines to third person indirect address in these two lines. See GKC 462 §144.p.
3 tn Heb “You do the evil and you are able.” This is an example of hendiadys, meaning “You do all the evil that you are able to do.”
4 tn Heb “from the day your ancestors…until this very day.” However, “day” here is idiomatic for “the present time.”
5 tn On the Hebrew idiom see the note at 7:13.
6 tc There is some textual debate about the legitimacy of this expression here. The text reads merely “day” (יוֹם, yom). BHS suggests the word is to be deleted as a dittography of the plural ending of the preceding word. The word is in the Greek and Latin, and the Syriac represents the typical idiom “day after day” as though the noun were repeated. Either יוֹם has dropped out by haplography or a ם (mem) has been left out, i.e., reading יוֹמָם (yomam, “daily”).
7 tn Heb “Then the towns of Judah and those living in Jerusalem will…”
8 tn The Hebrew construction is emphatic involving the use of an infinitive of the verb before the verb itself (Heb “saving they will not save”). For this construction to give emphasis to an antithesis, cf. GKC 343 §113.p.
9 tn Heb “oracle of the
10 tn Heb “I will set fire in its forest and it will devour its surroundings.” The pronouns are actually third feminine singular going back to the participle “you who sit enthroned above the valley.” However, this is another example of those rapid shifts in pronouns typical of the biblical Hebrew style which are uncommon in English. They have regularly been leveled to the same person throughout in the translation to avoid possible confusion for the English reader.
11 tn Heb “And Baruch son of Neriah did according to all that the prophet Jeremiah commanded him with regard to reading from the scroll the words of the
12 tn Heb “And the proud one will fall and there will be no one to help him up. I will start a fire in his towns and it will consume all that surround him.” The personification continues but now the stance is indirect (third person) rather than direct (second person). It is easier for the modern reader who is not accustomed to such sudden shifts if the second person is maintained. The personification of the city (or nation) as masculine is a little unusual; normally cities and nations are personified as feminine, as daughters or mothers.
