Jeremiah 21:14

New English Translation

¹⁴But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,’
says the Lord.^[a]
‘I will set fire to your palace;
it will burn up everything around it.’”^[b]

Jeremiah 21:14 tn Heb “oracle of the Lord.”
Jeremiah 21:14 tn Heb “I will set fire in its forest, and it will devour its surroundings.” The pronouns are actually third feminine singular, going back to the participle “you who sit enthroned above the valley.” However, this is another example of those rapid shifts in pronouns typical of the biblical Hebrew style but uncommon in English. They have regularly been leveled to the same person throughout in the translation to avoid possible confusion for the English reader.

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