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Jeremiah 10:22-24
New English Translation
Jeremiah 10:22-24
New English Translation
22 Listen! News is coming even now.[a]
The rumble of a great army is heard approaching[b] from a land in the north.[c]
It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble,
places where only jackals live.
23 Lord, we know that people do not control their own destiny.[d]
It is not in their power to determine what will happen to them.[e]
24 Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure.[f]
Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.[g]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 10:22 tn Heb “The sound of a report, behold, it is coming.”
- Jeremiah 10:22 tn Heb “coming, even a great quaking.”
- Jeremiah 10:22 sn Cf. Jer 6:22.
- Jeremiah 10:23 tn Heb “Not to the man his way.” For the nuance of “fate, destiny, or the way things turn out” for the Hebrew word “way,” see Hag 1:5, Isa 40:27 and probably Ps 49:13 (cf. KBL 218 s.v. דֶּרֶךְ 5). For the idea of “control” or “hold in one’s power” for the preposition “to,” see Ps 3:8 (cf. BDB 513 s.v. לְ 5.b[a]).
- Jeremiah 10:23 tn Heb “Not to a man the walking and the establishing his step.”
- Jeremiah 10:24 tn Heb “with justice.”
- Jeremiah 10:24 tn The words, “to almost nothing” are not in the text. They are implicit from the general context and are supplied by almost all English versions.
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