translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JER

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 .


text: Heb “I will set my eyes upon them for good.” For the nuance of “good” see Jer 21:10 ; Amos 9:4 (in these cases the opposite of harm; see BDB 375 s.v. טוֹבָה 1).


text: The words “There” and “firmly in the land” are not in the text but are implicit from the connection and the metaphor. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “I will give them a heart to know me that I am the Lord .” For the use of “heart” here referring to “inclinations, resolutions, and determinations of the will” see BDB 525 s.v. לֵב 4 and compare the usage in 2 Chr 12:14 . For the use of “know” to mean “acknowledge” see BDB 384 s.v. יָדַע Qal.1.f and compare the usage in Jer 39:4 . For the construction “know ‘someone’ that he…” = “know that ‘someone’…” see GKC 365 §117. h and compare the usage in 2 Sam 3:25 .


text: Heb “with all their heart.”


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “Like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness [= because they are so bad] surely [emphatic כִּי , ki ] so I regard Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his officials and the remnant of Jerusalem which remains in this land and those who are living in Egypt.” The sentence has been restructured in the translation to conform more to contemporary English style. For the use of נָתַן ( natan ) meaning “regard” or “treat like” see BDB 681 s.v. נָתַן 3.c and compare the usage in Ezek 28:6 ; Gen 42:30 .


text: Or “an object of reproach in peoples’ proverbs…an object of ridicule in people’s curses.” The alternate translation treats the two pairs which are introduced without vav s ( ו ) but are joined by vav s as examples of hendiadys. This is very possible here but the chain does not contain this pairing in 25:18; 29:18 . sn For an example of how the “example used in curses” worked, see Jer 29:22 . Sodom and Gomorrah evidently function much that same way (see 23:14; 49:18; 50:40 ; Deut 29:23 ; Zeph 2:9 ).


text: Heb “I will make them for a terror for disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a taunt and a curse in all the places which I banish them there.” The complex Hebrew sentence has been broken down into equivalent shorter sentences to conform more with contemporary English style.


text: Heb “fathers.”