Jeremiah 23:32 New English Translation
32 I, the Lord, affirm[a] that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies.[b] I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all.[c] I, the Lord, affirm it!”[d]
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- Jeremiah 23:32 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 23:32 tn Heb “with their lies and their recklessness.” This is an example of hendiadys where two nouns (in this case a concrete and an abstract one) are joined by “and” but one is intended to be the adjectival modifier of the other.
- Jeremiah 23:32 sn In the light of what has been said this is a rhetorical understatement; they are not only “not helping,” they are leading them to their doom (cf. vv. 19-22). This figure of speech is known as litotes.
- Jeremiah 23:32 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
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