Discovery BoxJeremiah 5:12 
Context5:12 “These people have denied what the Lord says. 1
They have said, ‘That is not so! 2
No harm will come to us.
We will not experience war and famine. 3
Jeremiah 5:21
Context5:21 Tell them: ‘Hear this,
you foolish people who have no understanding,
who have eyes but do not discern,
who have ears but do not perceive: 4
Jeremiah 6:25
Context6:25 Do not go out into the countryside.
Do not travel on the roads.
For the enemy is there with sword in hand. 5
They are spreading terror everywhere.” 6
Jeremiah 10:23
Context10:23 Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny. 7
It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them. 8
Jeremiah 16:17
Context16:17 For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it. 9
Jeremiah 23:21
Context23:21 I did not send those prophets.
Yet they were in a hurry to give their message. 10
I did not tell them anything.
Yet they prophesied anyway.
Jeremiah 25:35
Context25:35 The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. 11
The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.
Jeremiah 27:14
Context27:14 Do not listen to the prophets who are telling you that you do not need to serve 12 the king of Babylon. For they are prophesying lies to you.
Jeremiah 40:16
Context40:16 But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do that 13 because what you are saying about Ishmael is not true.” 14
1 tn Heb “have denied the
2 tn Or “he will do nothing”; Heb “Not he [or it]!”
3 tn Heb “we will not see the sword and famine.”
4 tn Heb “they have eyes but they do not see, they have ears but they do not hear.”
5 tn Heb “For the enemy has a sword.”
6 tn Heb “Terror is all around!”
7 tn Heb “Not to the man his way.” For the nuance of “fate, destiny, or the way things turn out” for the Hebrew word “way” see Hag 1:5, Isa 40:27 and probably Ps 49:13 (cf. KBL 218 s.v. דֶּרֶךְ 5). For the idea of “control” or “hold in one’s power” for the preposition “to” see Ps 3:8 (cf. BDB 513 s.v. לְ 5.b[a]).
8 tn Heb “Not to a man the walking and the establishing his step.”
9 tn Heb “For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hidden from before me. And their sin is not hidden away from before my eyes.”
10 tn Heb “Yet they ran.”
sn The image is that of a messenger bearing news from the king. See 2 Sam 18:19-24; Jer 51:31; Isa 40:9; 52:7; Hab 2:2 (the tablet/scroll bore the message the runner was to read to the intended recipients of his message). Their message has been given in v. 17 (see notes there for cross references).
11 tn Heb “Flight [or “place of escape”] will perish from the shepherds.”
sn Judging from Gen 14:10 and Judg 8:12 (among many others), it was not uncommon for the leaders to try to save their own necks at the expense of their soldiers.
12 tn The verb in this context is best taken as a negative obligatory imperfect. See IBHS 508 §31.4g for discussion and examples. See Exod 4:15 as an example of positive obligation.
13 tn Heb “this thing.”
14 tn Heb “is false” or “is a lie.”
