Discovery BoxJeremiah 2:32 
Context2:32 Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels?
Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire?
But my people have forgotten me
for more days than can even be counted.
Jeremiah 2:35
Context2:35 you say, ‘I have not done anything wrong,
so the Lord cannot really be angry with me any more.’
But, watch out! 1 I will bring down judgment on you
because you say, ‘I have not committed any sin.’
Jeremiah 4:13
Context4:13 Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. 2
The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. 3
His horses move more swiftly than eagles.”
I cry out, 4 “We are doomed, 5 for we will be destroyed!”
Jeremiah 31:16
Context“Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! 7
For your heartfelt repentance 8 will be rewarded.
Your children will return from the land of the enemy.
I, the Lord, affirm it! 9
Jeremiah 33:4
Context33:4 For I, the Lord God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians: 10
Jeremiah 51:43
Context51:43 The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins.
She has become a dry and barren desert.
No one lives in those towns any more.
No one even passes through them. 11
1 tn This is an attempt to render the Hebrew particle often translated “behold” (הִנֵּה, hinneh) in a meaningful way in this context. See further the translator’s note on the word “really” in 1:6.
2 tn Heb “he is coming up like clouds.” The words “The enemy” are supplied in the translation to identify the referent and the word “gathering” is supplied to try to convey the significance of the simile, i.e., that of quantity and of an approaching storm.
3 tn Heb “his chariots [are] like a whirlwind.” The words “roar” and “sound” are supplied in the translation to clarify the significance of the simile.
4 tn The words “I cry out” are not in the text, but the words that follow are obviously not the
5 tn Heb “Woe to us!” The words “woe to” are common in funeral laments and at the beginning of oracles of judgment. In many contexts they carry the connotation of hopelessness or apprehensiveness of inevitable doom.
6 tn The words “to her” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “Refrain your voice from crying and your eyes from tears.”
8 tn Heb “your work.” Contextually her “work” refers to her weeping and refusing to be comforted, that is, signs of genuine repentance (v. 15).
9 tn Heb “Oracle of the
10 tn Heb “the sword.” The figure has been interpreted for the sake of clarity.
11 tn Heb “Its towns have become a desolation, [it has become] a dry land and a desert, a land which no man passes through them [referring to “her towns”] and no son of man [= human being] passes through them.” Here the present translation has followed the suggestion of BHS and a number of the modern commentaries in deleting the second occurrence of the word “land,” in which case the words that follow are not a relative clause but independent statements. A number of modern English versions appear to ignore the third feminine plural suffixes which refer back to the cities and refer the statements that follow to the land.
