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Jeremiah 29:18-20
New English Translation
Jeremiah 29:18-20
New English Translation
18 I will chase after them with war,[a] starvation, and disease. I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to them. I will make them examples of those who are cursed, objects of horror, hissing scorn, and ridicule among all the nations where I exile them. 19 For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’[b] says the Lord.[c] ‘And you exiles[d] have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the Lord.[e] 20 ‘So pay attention to the Lord’s message,[f] all you exiles whom I have sent to Babylon from Jerusalem.’
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- Jeremiah 29:18 tn Heb “with the sword.”
- Jeremiah 29:19 tn See the translator’s note on 7:13 for an explanation of this idiom.
- Jeremiah 29:19 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 29:19 tn The word “exiles” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the referent of “you.”
- Jeremiah 29:19 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 29:20 sn The shift from third person to first person is common in Hebrew poetry and prophecy but not in English style. The Lord uses “the Lord’s message” as a technical term, probably to emphasize its authority.
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