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Jeremiah 50:29-31
New English Translation
Jeremiah 50:29-31
New English Translation
29 “Call for archers[a] to come against Babylon!
Summon against her all who draw the bow.
Set up camp all around the city.
Do not allow anyone to escape!
Pay her back for what she has done.
Do to her what she has done to others.
For she has proudly defied me,[b]
the Holy One of Israel.[c]
30 So her young men will fall in her city squares.
All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,”
says the Lord.[d]
31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,”[e]
says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.[f]
“Indeed,[g] your day of reckoning[h] has come,
the time when I will punish you.[i]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:29 tn For this word see BDB 914 s.v. III רַב, compare usage in Prov 26:10 and Job 16:12, and see the use of the verb in Gen 49:23. Based on this evidence, it is not necessary to emend the form to רֹבִים (rovim), as many commentators contend.
- Jeremiah 50:29 tn Heb “for she has acted insolently against the Lord.” Once again there is the problem of the Lord speaking about himself in the third person (or the prophet dropping his identification with the Lord). As in several other places, the present translation, along with several other modern English versions (TEV, CEV, NIrV), has substituted the first person to maintain consistency with the context.
- Jeremiah 50:29 sn The Holy One of Israel is a common title for the Lord in the book of Isaiah. It is applied to the Lord only here and in 51:5 in the book of Jeremiah. It is a figure where an attribute of a person is put as a title of a person (compare “your majesty” for a king). It pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.
- Jeremiah 50:30 tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 50:31 tn Heb “Behold, I am against you, proud one.” The word “city” is not in the text, but it is generally agreed that the word is being used as a personification of the city, which had “proudly defied” the Lord (v. 29). The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Jeremiah 50:31 tn Heb “oracle of the Lord Yahweh of Armies.” For the rendering of this title and an explanation of its significance, see the study note on 2:19.
- Jeremiah 50:31 tn The particle כִּי (ki) is probably asseverative here (so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 739, n. 13, and cf. BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 1.e for other examples). This has been a common use of this particle in the book of Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 50:31 tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Jeremiah 50:31 sn Cf. v. 27.
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