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Jeremiah 5:6

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5:6 So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them.

Like a wolf from the desert they will destroy them.

Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities

and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. 1 

For they have rebelled so much

and done so many unfaithful things. 2 

Jeremiah 9:12

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9:12 I said, 3 

“Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? 4 

Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? 5 

Why does the land lie in ruins?

Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”

Jeremiah 16:4

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16:4 They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

Jeremiah 25:33

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25:33 Those who have been killed by the Lord at that time

will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other.

They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried. 6 

Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.

Jeremiah 27:16

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27:16 I also told the priests and all the people, “The Lord says, ‘Do not listen to what your prophets are saying. They are prophesying to you that 7  the valuable articles taken from the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon very soon. 8  But they are prophesying a lie to you.

Jeremiah 29:31

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29:31 “Send a message to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, ‘The Lord has spoken about Shemaiah the Nehelamite. “Shemaiah has spoken to you as a prophet even though I did not send him. He is making you trust in a lie. 9 

Jeremiah 33:12

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33:12 “I, the Lord who rules over all, say: 10  ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

Jeremiah 43:2

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43:2 Then Azariah 11  son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God did not send you to tell us, ‘You must not go to Egypt and settle there.’

Jeremiah 49:13

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49:13 For I solemnly swear,” 12  says the Lord, “that Bozrah 13  will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses. 14  All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”

1 tn Heb “So a lion from the thicket will kill them. A wolf from the desert will destroy them. A leopard will watch outside their cities. Anyone who goes out from them will be torn in pieces.” However, it is unlikely that, in the context of judgment that Jeremiah has previously been describing, literal lions are meant. The animals are metaphorical for their enemies. Compare Jer 4:7.

2 tn Heb “their rebellions are so many and their unfaithful acts so numerous.”

3 tn The words, “I said” are not in the text. It is not clear that a shift in speaker has taken place. However, the words of the verse are very unlikely to be a continuation of the Lord’s threat. It is generally assumed that these are the words of Jeremiah and that a dialogue is going on between him and the Lord in vv. 9-14. That assumption is accepted here.

4 tn Heb “Who is the wise man that he may understand this?”

5 tn Heb “And [who is the man] to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken that he may explain it?”

6 sn The intent here is to emphasize the large quantity of those who are killed – there will be too many to insure proper mourning rites and proper burial.

7 tn Heb “don’t listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you….” The sentence has been broken up for the sake of English style and one level of embedded quotes has been eliminated to ease complexity.

8 sn This refers to the valuable articles of the temple treasury which were carried off by Nebuchadnezzar four years earlier when he carried off Jeconiah, his family, some of his nobles, and some of the cream of Judean society (2 Kgs 24:10-16, especially v. 13 and see also vv. 19-20 in the verses following).

9 tn Or “is giving you false assurances.”

10 tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of armies.” For the explanation for the first person introduction see the translator’s notes on 33:2, 10. Verses 4, 10, 12 introduce three oracles, all under the answer to the Lord’s promise to Jeremiah to show him “great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.”

11 sn See the study note on 42:1 for the possible identification of this man with Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite.

12 tn Heb “I swear by myself.” See 22:5 and the study note there.

13 sn Bozrah appears to have been the chief city in Edom, its capital city (see its parallelism with Edom in Isa 34:6; 63:1; Jer 49:22). The reference to “its towns” (translated here “all the towns around it”) could then be a reference to all the towns in Edom. It was located about twenty-five miles southeast of the southern end of the Dead Sea apparently in the district of Teman (see the parallelism in Amos 1:12).

14 tn See the study note on 24:9 for the rendering of this term.



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