¹ tn Heb “plant.”

¹ tn Heb “plant.”

¹ tn Heb “he spoke about plants.”

² sn That is, crowded out the good plants.

² sn That is, crowded out the good plants.

² sn That is, crowded out the good plants.

⁷ tn Or “hills,” where the vineyards were planted.

² tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”

¹ tn Or “among the reed plants” (cf. NEB, NASB, NJPS).

¹ tn Heb “You planted them, and they took root.”

² tn Heb “they will not plant, and another eat.”

⁵ tn Heb “a planting of the Lord to reveal splendor.”

³ tn Heb “gather mallow,” a plant which grows in salt marshes.

¹ sn Heb “plant.” The terms “uproot,” “tear down,” “destroy,” “build,” and “plant” are the two sides of the ministry Jeremiah was called to fulfill (cf. Jer 1:10).

² tn Or “Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”; Heb “and Noah, a man of the ground, began and he planted a vineyard.”

¹ tn Or perhaps, following the plant metaphor: “will be blighted” (the NIV is similar).

² tn Heb “a shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to reveal splendor.”

¹ tn Heb “the plants by the river, by the mouth of the river.”

² sn They are compared to a flowering plant that withers quickly in a hot, arid climate.

¹ sn The act of plowing is put for the whole process of planting a crop.