Discovery BoxJeremiah 13:5 
Context13:5 So I went and buried them at Perath 1 as the Lord had ordered me to do.
Jeremiah 14:11
Context14:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people! 2
Jeremiah 17:17
Context17:17 Do not cause me dismay! 3
You are my source of safety in times of trouble.
Jeremiah 35:7
Context35:7 Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. 4 Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will 5 live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ 6
1 tc The translation reads בִּפְרָתָה (bifratah) with 4QJera as noted in W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 1:393 instead of בִּפְרָת (bifrat) in the MT.
2 tn Heb “on behalf of these people for benefit.”
3 tn Heb “do not be a source of dismay for me.” For this nuance of מְחִתָּה (mÿkhittah) rather than “terror” as many of the English versions have it see BDB 370 s.v. מְחִתָּה 1.b and the usage in Prov 21:15. Compare also the usage of the related verb which occurs in the next verse (see also BDB 369 s.v. חָתַת Qal.2).
4 tn Heb “Don’t plant a vineyard and it shall not be to you [= and you shall/must not have one].”
5 tn Heb “Don’t…and don’t…but live…in order that you might….”
6 sn Heb “where you are sojourning.” The terms “sojourn” and “sojourner” referred to a person who resided in a country not his own, without the rights and privileges of citizenship as a member of a nation, state, or principality. In the ancient Near East such people were dependent on the laws of hospitality rather than the laws of state for protection and provision of legal rights. Perhaps the best illustration of this is Abraham who “sojourned” among the Philistines and the Hittites in Canaan and was dependent upon them for grazing and water rights and for a place to bury his wife (cf. Gen 20-24). What is described here is the typical lifestyle of a nomadic tribe.
