Discovery BoxJeremiah 2:36 
Context2:36 Why do you constantly go about
changing your political allegiances? 1
You will get no help from Egypt
just as you got no help from Assyria. 2
Jeremiah 13:6
Context13:6 Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get 3 the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”
Jeremiah 36:28
Context36:28 “Get another 4 scroll and write on it everything 5 that was written on the original scroll 6 that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned.
Jeremiah 46:6
Context46:6 But even the swiftest cannot get away.
Even the strongest cannot escape. 7
There in the north by the Euphrates River
they stumble and fall in defeat. 8
Jeremiah 50:8
Context50:8 “People of Judah, 9 get out of Babylon quickly!
Leave the land of Babylonia! 10
Be the first to depart! 11
Be like the male goats that lead the herd.
Jeremiah 51:8
Context51:8 But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. 12
Cry out in mourning over it!
Get medicine for her wounds!
Perhaps she can be healed!
1 tn Heb “changing your way.” The translation follows the identification of the Hebrew verb here as a defective writing of a form (תֵּזְלִי [tezÿli] instead of תֵּאזְלִי [te’zÿli]) from a verb meaning “go/go about” (אָזַל [’azal]; cf. BDB 23 s.v. אָזַל). Most modern English versions, commentaries, and lexicons read it from a root meaning “to treat cheaply [or lightly]” (תָּזֵלִּי [tazelli] from the root זָלַל (zalal); cf. HALOT 261 s.v. זָלַל); hence, “Why do you consider it such a small matter to…”
2 tn Heb “You will be ashamed/disappointed by Egypt, just as you were ashamed/ disappointed by Assyria.”
3 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.”
4 tn Heb “Return, take another.” The verb “return” is used in the sense of repetition “take again” (cf. BDB 998 s.v. שׁוּב Qal.8). The idea is already contained in “Get another” so most modern English versions do not represent it.
5 tn Heb “all the former words/things.”
6 tn Heb “first [or former] scroll.”
7 tn The translation assumes that the adjectives with the article are functioning as superlatives in this context (cf. GKC 431 §133.g). It also assumes that אַל (’al) with the jussive is expressing here an emphatic negative rather than a negative wish (cf. GKC 317 §107.p and compare the usage in Ps 50:3).
8 tn Heb “they stumble and fall.” However, the verbs here are used of a fatal fall, of a violent death in battle (see BDB 657 s.v. נָפַל Qal.2.a), and a literal translation might not be understood by some readers.
9 tn The words “People of Judah” are not in the Hebrew text but are implicit from the context. They have been supplied in the translation to clarify the subject of the address.
10 tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for explanation.
11 tn The words “Be the first to leave” are not in the text but spell out the significance of the simile that follows. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
12 tn The verbs in this verse and the following are all in the Hebrew perfect tense, a tense that often refers to a past action or a past action with present results. However, as the translator’s notes have indicated, the prophets use this tense to view the actions as if they were as good as done (the Hebrew prophetic perfect). The stance here is ideal, viewed as already accomplished.
