Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionThe heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?New Living Translation“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?English Standard VersionThe heart...
5tnSome commentaries and English versions follow the suggestion given inHALOT116 s.v. IIבָּטַחthat a homonym meaning “to stumble, fall down” is involved here and inProv 14:16. The evidence for this homonym is questionable because both passages can be explained on other ...
Jeremiah 32:15snThe significance of the symbolic act performed by Jeremiah, as explained here, was a further promise (see the “again” statements in31:4,5,23and the “no longer” statements in31:12,29,34,40) of future restoration beyond the destruction implied invv. 3-5. After the in...
You are not the master over others and have no place to pass judgement on them. As Paul wrote in chapter 13, it’s the governments role as God’s agent to pass judgement when there are civil infractions. As to the personal influencers in our lives, Jesus tells us to judge them by ...
and the transference of the same word to the hair of the head is explained by the practice of the Nazarites, to wear the hair uncut as a mark of consecration to the Lord,Numbers 6:5. The hair of the Nazarite is called inNumbers 6:7the consecration (נזר) of his God upon ...
and all the kings of the land of the Philistines; the petty kings of it, called the lords of the Philistines elsewhere, who were great enemies to the people of the Jews: the prophecy of their destruction is in forty seventh chapter, and whose principal cities are next mentioned: ...
It is most often translated “stocks” and explained as an instrument of confinement for keeping prisoners in a crooked position (from its relation to a root meaning “to turn”). See BDB 246 s.v. מַהְפֶּכֶת and KBL 500 s.v. מַהְפֶּכ...
Jeremiah 44:24tnHeb“and to all the women.” The “and” (ו,vav) is to be explained here according to BDB 252 s.v.וַ1.a. The focus of the address that follows is on the women. See the translator’s note on the next verse. ...
Read full chapter Footnotes Jeremiah 22:22 tn Heb“A wind will shepherd away all your shepherds.” The figures have all been interpreted in the translation for the sake of clarity. For the use of the word “wind” as a metaphor or simile for God’s judgment (using the enemy forces),...
Jeremiah 29:3 sn It is unclear whether this incident preceded or followed those in the preceding chapter. It is known from 52:5-9 that Zedekiah himself had made a trip to Babylon in the same year mentioned in 28:1 and that Jeremiah had used that occasion to address a prophecy of disast...