Footnotes

1. Jeremiah 7:5 tn The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
2. Jeremiah 7:5 tn Heb “you must do justice between a person and his fellow/neighbor.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
3. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop oppressing resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.”sn Cf. Exod 22:21; Lev 19:33-34; Deut 10:18-19; 24:14, 17; 27:19.
4. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “Stop shedding innocent blood.”
5. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going/following after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.
6. Jeremiah 7:6 tn Heb “going after other gods to your ruin.”
7. Jeremiah 7:7 tn The translation uses imperatives in vv. 5-6 followed by the phrase “If you do all this” to avoid the long and complex sentence structure of the Hebrew sentence, which has a series of conditional clauses in vv. 5-6 followed by a main clause in v. 7.
8. Jeremiah 7:7 tn Heb “live in this place, in this land.”
9. Jeremiah 7:7 tn Heb “gave to your fathers [with reference to] from ancient times even unto forever.”