Discovery BoxJeremiah 2:30 
Context2:30 “It did no good for me to punish your people.
They did not respond to such correction.
You slaughtered your prophets
like a voracious lion.” 1
Jeremiah 2:33
Context2:33 “My, how good you have become
at chasing after your lovers! 2
Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two! 3
Jeremiah 18:10
Context18:10 But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
Jeremiah 31:14
Context31:14 I will provide the priests with abundant provisions. 4
My people will be filled to the full with the good things I provide.”
1 tn Heb “Your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.” However, the reference to the sword in this and many similar idioms is merely idiomatic for death by violent means.
2 tn Heb “How good you have made your ways to seek love.”
3 tn Heb “so that even the wicked women you teach your ways.”
4 tn Heb “I will satiate the priests with fat.” However, the word translated “fat” refers literally to the fat ashes of the sacrifices (see Lev 1:16; 4:2 and cf. BDB 206 s.v. דֶּשֶׁן 2. The word is used more abstractly for “abundance” or “rich food” (see Job 36:16 and BDB 206 s.v. דֶּשֶׁן 1). The people and the priests were prohibited from eating the fat (Lev 7:23-24).
