Jeremiah 19:11 New English Translation
11 Tell them the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says,[a] ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done.[b] I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel that is broken beyond repair.[c] The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’[d]
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- Jeremiah 19:11 tn Heb “Thus says Yahweh of Armies.” For this title see the study note on 2:19. The translation attempts to avoid the confusion of embedding quotes within quotes by reducing this one to an indirect quote.
- Jeremiah 19:11 tn The adverb “Thus” or “Like this” normally points back to something previously mentioned. See, e.g., Exod 29:35; Num 11:15; 15:11; Deut 25:9.
- Jeremiah 19:11 tn Heb “Like this I will break this people and this city, just as one breaks the vessel of a potter that is not able to be repaired.”
- Jeremiah 19:11 sn See Jer 7:32-33 for parallels.
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