Discovery BoxJeremiah 3:4 
Context3:4 Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! 1
You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
Jeremiah 3:15
Context3:15 I will give you leaders 2 who will be faithful to me. 3 They will lead you with knowledge and insight.
Jeremiah 4:12
Context4:12 No, 4 a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding.
Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’ 5
Jeremiah 17:23
Context17:23 Your ancestors, 6 however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused 7 to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’
Jeremiah 29:12
Context29:12 When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, 8 I will hear your prayers. 9
1 tn Heb “Have you not just now called out to me, ‘[you are] my father!’?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer.
2 tn Heb “shepherds.”
3 tn Heb “after/according to my [own] heart.”
4 tn The word “No” is not in the text but is carried over from the connection with the preceding line “not for…”
5 tn Heb “will speak judgments against them.”
6 tn Heb “They.” The antecedent is spelled out to avoid any possible confusion.
7 tn Heb “They hardened [or made stiff] their neck so as not to.”
8 tn Heb “come and pray to me.” This is an example of verbal hendiadys where two verb formally joined by “and” convey a main concept with the second verb functioning as an adverbial qualifier.
9 tn Or “You will call out to me and come to me in prayer and I will hear your prayers.” The verbs are vav consecutive perfects and can be taken either as unconditional futures or as contingent futures. See GKC 337 §112.kk and 494 §159.g and compare the usage in Gen 44:22 for the use of the vav consecutive perfects in contingent futures. The conditional clause in the middle of 29:13 and the deuteronomic theology reflected in both Deut 30:1-5 and 1 Kgs 8:46-48 suggest that the verbs are continent futures here. For the same demand for wholehearted seeking in these contexts which presuppose exile see especially Deut 30:2, 1 Kgs 8:48.
