Jeremiah 25:29 New English Translation
29 For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own.[a] So how can you possibly avoid being punished?[b] You will not go unpunished. For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,[c] affirm it!’[d]
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- Jeremiah 25:29 tn Heb “which is called by my name.” See translator’s note on 7:10 for support.
- Jeremiah 25:29 tn This is an example of a question without the formal introductory particle following a conjunctive vav introducing an opposition. (See Joüon 2:609 §161.a.) It is also an example of the use of the infinitive before the finite verb in a rhetorical question involving doubt or denial. (See Joüon 2:422-23 §123.f, and compare usage in Gen 37:8.)
- Jeremiah 25:29 tn Heb “Yahweh of Armies.”sn See the study notes on 2:19 and 7:3 for explanation of this extended title.
- Jeremiah 25:29 tn Heb “Oracle of Yahweh of Armies.”
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