Discovery BoxJeremiah 7:34 
Context7:34 I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.”
Jeremiah 12:12
Context12:12 A destructive army 1 will come marching
over the hilltops in the desert.
For the Lord will use them as his destructive weapon 2
against 3 everyone from one end of the land to the other.
No one will be safe. 4
Jeremiah 51:13
Context51:13 “You who live along the rivers of Babylon, 5
the time of your end has come.
You who are rich in plundered treasure,
it is time for your lives to be cut off. 6
Jeremiah 51:55
Context51:55 For the Lord is ready to destroy Babylon,
and put an end to her loud noise.
Their waves 7 will roar like turbulent 8 waters.
They will make a deafening noise. 9
Jeremiah 51:64
Context51:64 Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments 10 I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’”
The prophecies of Jeremiah end here. 11
1 tn Heb “destroyers.”
2 tn Heb “It is the
3 tn Heb “For a sword of the
4 tn Heb “There is no peace to all flesh.”
5 sn Babylon was situated on the Euphrates River and was surrounded by canals (also called “rivers”).
6 tn Heb “You who live upon [or beside] many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the cubit of your cutting off.” The sentence has been restructured and paraphrased to provide clarity for the average reader. The meaning of the last phrase is debated. For a discussion of the two options see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:423. Most modern commentaries and English versions see an allusion to the figure in Isa 38:12 where the reference is to the end of life compared to a tapestry which is suddenly cut off from the loom. Hence, NRSV renders the last line as “the thread of your life is cut” and TEV renders “its thread of life is cut.” That idea is accepted also in HALOT 141 s.v. בצע Qal.1.
7 tn The antecedent of the third masculine plural pronominal suffix is not entirely clear. It probably refers back to the “destroyers” mentioned in v. 53 as the agents of God’s judgment on Babylon.
8 tn Or “mighty waters.”
9 tn Heb “and the noise of their sound will be given,”
10 tn Or “disaster”; or “calamity.”
11 sn The final chapter of the book of Jeremiah does not mention Jeremiah or record any of his prophecies.
