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Jeremiah 4:16

Context

4:16 They are saying, 1 

‘Announce to the surrounding nations, 2 

“The enemy is coming!” 3 

Proclaim this message 4  to Jerusalem:

“Those who besiege cities 5  are coming from a distant land.

They are ready to raise the battle cry against 6  the towns in Judah.”’

Jeremiah 10:22

Context

10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. 7 

The rumble of a great army is heard approaching 8  from a land in the north. 9 

It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,

places where only jackals live.

Jeremiah 50:28

Context

50:28 Listen! Fugitives and refugees are coming from the land of Babylon.

They are coming to Zion to declare there

how the Lord our God is getting revenge,

getting revenge for what they have done to his temple. 10 

1 tn The words “They are saying” are not in the text but are implicit in the connection and are supplied in the translation for clarification.

2 tn The word “surrounding” is not in the text but is implicit and is supplied in the translation for clarification.

3 tc Or “Here they come!” Heb “Look!” or “Behold!” Or “Announce to the surrounding nations, indeed [or yes] proclaim to Jerusalem, ‘Besiegers…’” The text is very elliptical here. Some of the modern English versions appear to be emending the text from הִנֵּה (hinneh, “behold”) to either הֵנָּה (hennah, “these things”; so NEB), or הַזֶּה (hazzeh, “this”; so NIV). The solution proposed here is as old as the LXX which reads, “Behold, they have come.”

4 tn The words, “this message,” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation to make the introduction of the quote easier.

5 tn Heb “Besiegers.” For the use of this verb to refer to besieging a city compare Isa 1:8.

6 tn Heb “They have raised their voices against.” The verb here, a vav (ו) consecutive with an imperfect, continues the nuance of the preceding participle “are coming.”

7 tn Heb “The sound of a report, behold, it is coming.”

8 tn Heb “ coming, even a great quaking.”

9 sn Compare Jer 6:22.

10 tn Heb “Hark! Fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.” For the meaning “Hark!” for the noun קוֹל (qol) see BDB 877 s.v. קוֹל 1.f and compare the usage in Jer 10:22. The syntax is elliptical because there is no main verb. The present translation has supplied the verb “come” as many other English versions have done. The translation also expands the genitival expression “vengeance for his temple” to explain what all the commentaries agree is involved.

sn This verse appears to be a parenthetical exclamation of the prophet in the midst of his report of what the Lord said through him. He throws himself into the future and sees the fall of Babylon and hears the people reporting in Zion how God has destroyed Babylon to get revenge for the Babylonians destroying his temple. Jeremiah prophesied from 627 b.c. (see the study note on 1:2) until sometime after 586 b.c. after Jerusalem fell and he was taken to Egypt. The fall of Babylon occurred in 538 b.c. some fifty years later. However, Jeremiah had prophesied as early as the first year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign (605 b.c.; Jer 25:1) that many nations and great kings would come and subject Babylon, the instrument of God’s wrath – his sword against the nations – to bondage (Jer 25:12-14).



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