Jeremiah 44:10

To this day your people ¹  have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded ²  you and your ancestors.’

Ex 9:17; Ex 9:30; Ex 10:3; 1Ki 21:29; 2Ki 22:19; 2Ch 12:6-12; 2Ch 32:26; 2Ch 33:12,19; 2Ch 34:27; Ps 34:18; Ps 51:17; Pr 8:13; Pr 14:16; Pr 16:6; Pr 28:14; Ec 8:12,13; Isa 57:15; Isa 66:2; Jer 8:12; Jer 10:7; Jer 36:24; Eze 9:4; Da 5:20-22; Mal 4:2; Mt 27:54; Lu 23:40; Ro 11:20; Jas 4:6-10; 1Pe 5:6; Re 15:4

¹ tn Heb “they” but as H. Freedman (Jeremiah [SoBB], 284) notes the third person is used here to include the people just referred to as well as the current addressees. Hence “your people” or “the people of Judah.” It is possible that the third person again reflects the rhetorical distancing that was referred to earlier in 35:16 (see the translator’s note there for explanation) in which case one might translate “you have shown,” and “you have not revered.”

² tn Heb “to set before.” According to BDB 817 s.v. פָּנֶה II.4.b(g) this refers to “propounding to someone for acceptance or choice.” This is clearly the usage in Deut 30:15, 19; Jer 21:8 and is likely the case here. However, to translate literally would not be good English idiom and “proposed to” might not be correctly understood, so the basic translation of נָתַן (natan) has been used here.