Discovery BoxJeremiah 3:10 
Context3:10 In spite of all this, 1 Israel’s sister, unfaithful Judah, has not turned back to me with any sincerity; she has only pretended to do so,” 2 says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:24
Context3:24 From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal,
has taken away 3 all that our ancestors 4 worked for.
It has taken away our flocks and our herds,
and even our sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 4:7
Context4:7 Like a lion that has come up from its lair 5
the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. 6
He is coming out to lay your land waste.
Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.
Jeremiah 7:28-29
Context7:28 So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore. 7 7:29 So, mourn, 8 you people of this nation. 9 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject 10 and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’” 11
Jeremiah 22:11
Context22:11 “‘For the Lord has spoken about Shallum son of Josiah, who succeeded his father as king of Judah but was carried off into exile. He has said, “He will never return to this land. 12
Jeremiah 49:30
Context49:30 The Lord says, 13 “Flee quickly, you who live in Hazor. 14
Take up refuge in remote places. 15
For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has laid out plans to attack you.
He has formed his strategy on how to defeat you.” 16
Jeremiah 50:23
Context50:23 Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces.
But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! 17
See what an object of horror
Babylon has become among the nations!
Jeremiah 51:10
Context51:10 The exiles from Judah will say, 18
‘The Lord has brought about a great deliverance for us! 19
Come on, let’s go and proclaim in Zion
what the Lord our God has done!’
1 tn Heb “And even in all this.”
2 tn Heb “ has not turned back to me with all her heart but only in falsehood.”
3 tn Heb “From our youth the shameful thing has eaten up…” The shameful thing is specifically identified as Baal in Jer 11:13. Compare also the shift in certain names such as Ishbaal (“man of Baal”) to Ishbosheth (“man of shame”).
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 25).
5 tn Heb “A lion has left its lair.” The metaphor is turned into a simile for clarification. The word translated “lair” has also been understood to refer to a hiding place. However, it appears to be cognate in meaning to the word translated “lair” in Ps 10:9; Jer 25:38, a word which also refers to the abode of the
6 tn Heb “his place.”
7 tn Heb “Faithfulness has vanished. It is cut off from their lips.”
sn For the need for faithfulness see 5:1, 3.
8 tn The word “mourn” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation for clarity to explain the significance of the words “Cut your hair and throw it away.”
sn Cf. Mic 1:16; Job 1:20 for other examples of this practice which was involved in mourning.
9 tn The words, “you people of this nation” are not in the text. Many English versions supply, “Jerusalem.” The address shifts from second masculine singular addressing Jeremiah (vv. 27-28a) to second feminine singular. It causes less disruption in the flow of the context to see the nation as a whole addressed here as a feminine singular entity (as, e.g., in 2:19, 23; 3:2, 3; 6:26) than to introduce a new entity, Jerusalem.
10 tn The verbs here are the Hebrew scheduling perfects. For this use of the perfect see GKC 312 §106.m.
11 tn Heb “the generation of his wrath.”
12 tn Heb “For thus said the
13 tn Heb “Oracle of the
14 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
15 tn Heb “Make deep to dwell.” See Jer 49:8 and the translator’s note there. The use of this same phrase here argues against the alternative there of going down from a height and going back home.
16 tn Heb “has counseled a counsel against you, has planned a plan against you.”
17 tn Heb “How broken and shattered is the hammer of all the earth!” The “hammer” is a metaphor for Babylon who was God’s war club to shatter the nations and destroy kingdoms just like Assyria is represented in Isa 10:5 as a rod and a war club. Some readers, however, might not pick up on the metaphor or identify the referent, so the translation has incorporated an identification of the metaphor and the referent within it. “See how” and “See what” are an attempt to capture the nuance of the Hebrew particle אֵיךְ (’ekh) which here expresses an exclamation of satisfaction in a taunt song (cf. BDB 32 s.v. אֵיךְ 2 and compare usage in Isa 14:4, 12; Jer 50:23).
18 tn The words “The exiles from Judah will say” are not in the text but are implicit from the words that follow. They are supplied in the translation to clearly identify for the reader the referent of “us.”
19 tn There is some difference of opinion as to the best way to render the Hebrew expression here. Literally it means “brought forth our righteousnesses.” BDB 842 s.v. צְדָקָה 7.b interprets this of the “righteous acts” of the people of Judah and compares the usage in Isa 64:6; Ezek 3:20; 18:24; 33:13. However, Judah’s acts of righteousness (or more simply, their righteousness) was scarcely revealed in their deliverance. Most of the English versions and commentaries refer to “vindication” i.e., that the
