Jeremiah 48:42-44

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Jeremiah 48:42 tn Heb “Moab will be destroyed from [being] a people.”
2. Jeremiah 48:43 sn There is an extended use of assonance here and in the parallel passage in Isa 24:17. The Hebrew text reads פַּחַד וָפַחַת וָפָח (pakhad vafakhat vafakh). The assonance is intended to underscore the extensive trouble that is in store for them.
3. Jeremiah 48:43 tn Heb “are upon you, inhabitant of Moab.” This is another example of the rapid switch in person, or direct address (apostrophe) in the midst of a third person description or prediction, which the present translation typically keeps in the third person for smoother English style.
4. Jeremiah 48:43 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
5. Jeremiah 48:44 sn Jer 48:43-44a are in the main the same as Isa 24:17-18, which shows that the judgment was somewhat proverbial. For a very similar kind of argumentation see Amos 5:19; judgment is unavoidable.
6. Jeremiah 48:44 tn Heb “For I will bring upon her, even upon Moab, the year of her punishment.”
7. Jeremiah 48:44 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”