³ tn Or “secret.”

² tn Or “secret.” In the NT μυστήριον (mustērion) refers to a divine secret previously undisclosed.

² tn Or “divine secret” (see Eph 1:9).

⁴ tn Heb “their rejoicing is like devouring the poor in secret.”

² sn The use of the word “in secret” or “secretly” suggests that what they do is a guilty action (31:27a).

⁴ tn Grk “will bring in,” often with the connotation of secretiveness; “your midst” is implied.

⁶ tn L&N 28.71 has “send us away secretly” for this verse.

² tn Or “in secret” (as opposed to publicly, so that the other mourners did not hear).

¹ tn Heb “So King Zedekiah secretly swore an oath to Jeremiah, saying.”

¹ tn Heb “treasures of darkness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “treasures from dark, secret places.”

² tn The participle מְגַלֶּה (m^egalleh) means “uncovering” or “revealing” secrets.

³ tn Or possibly “secret storage places.” The Hebrew word occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible.

¹ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

¹ sn The fact that the “gift” is given secretly (Heb “from the bosom” [מֵחֵיק, mekheq]; so NASB) indicates that it was not proper. Cf. NRSV “a concealed bribe”; TEV, CEV, NLT “secret bribes.”

⁴ tn The word is “secret place,” the place where he is to hide them, i.e., the grave. The text uses the word “secret place” as a metonymy for the grave.

² tn Grk “deep things.” For the translation “deep secrets” see L&N 28.76; cf. NAB, NIV, CEV.

³ tn See the note on this term in v. 6. Cf. KJV “and they had emerods in their secret parts.”

² tn Heb “bread of secrecies.” It could mean “bread [eaten in] secret places,” a genitive of location; or it could mean “bread [gained through] secrets,” a genitive of source, the secrecies being metonymical for theft. The latter makes a better parallelism in this verse, for bread (= sexually immoral behavior) gained secretly would be like stolen water.

³ sn As I wrote briefly may refer to the author’s brief discussion of the divine secret in 1:9.

¹ tn Another translation would be “they suborned” (but this term is not in common usage). “Instigate (secretly), suborn” is given by BDAG 1036 s.v. ὑποβάλλω.