Discovery BoxJeremiah 13:6 
Context13:6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get 1 the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”
Jeremiah 20:18
Context20:18 Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb?
All I experience is trouble and grief,
and I spend my days in shame. 2
Jeremiah 30:24
Context30:24 The anger of the Lord will not turn back
until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.
In days to come you will come to understand this. 3
Jeremiah 48:47
Context48:47 Yet in days to come
I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” 4
says the Lord. 5
The judgment against Moab ends here.
1 tn Heb “Get from there.” The words “from there” are not necessary to the English sentence. They would lead to a redundancy later in the verse, i.e., “from there…bury there.”
2 tn Heb “Why did I come forth from the womb to see [= so that I might see] trouble and grief and that my days might be consumed in shame.”
3 sn Jer 30:23-24 are almost a verbatim repetition of 23:19-20. There the verses were addressed to the people of Jerusalem as a warning that the false prophets had no intimate awareness of the
4 tn See 29:14; 30:3 and the translator’s note on 29:14 for the idiom used here.
5 tn Heb “Oracle of the
