Jeremiah 10:11
ContextNETBible | You people of Israel should tell those nations this: ‘These gods did not make heaven and earth. They will disappear 1 from the earth and from under the heavens.’ 2 |
XREF | Ps 96:5; Isa 2:18; Jer 10:15; Jer 51:18; La 3:66; Zep 2:11; Zec 13:2; Re 20:2 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Aram “The gods who did not make…earth will disappear…” The sentence is broken up in the translation to avoid a long, complex English sentence in conformity with contemporary English style. 2 tn This verse is in Aramaic. It is the only Aramaic sentence in Jeremiah. Scholars debate the appropriateness of this verse to this context. Many see it as a gloss added by a postexilic scribe which was later incorporated into the text. Both R. E. Clendenen (“Discourse Strategies in Jeremiah 10,” JBL 106 [1987]: 401-8) and W. L. Holladay (Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 1:324-25, 334-35) have given detailed arguments that the passage is not only original but the climax and center of the contrast between the sn This passage is carefully structured and placed to contrast the |