Jeremiah 50:30-32
New English Translation
30 So her young men will fall in her city squares.
All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,”
says the Lord.[a]
31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,”[b]
says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.[c]
“Indeed,[d] your day of reckoning[e] has come,
the time when I will punish you.[f]
32 You will stumble and fall, you proud city;
no one will help you get up.
I will set fire to your towns;
it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”[g]
Footnotes
- 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.
- Jeremiah 50:32 tn Heb “And the proud one will fall, and there will be no one to help him up. I will start a fire in his towns, and it will consume all that surround him.” The personification continues, but now the stance is indirect (third person) rather than direct (second person). For the modern reader who is not accustomed to such sudden shifts, it is easier if the second person is maintained. The personification of the city (or nation) as masculine is a little unusual; normally cities and nations are personified as feminine, as daughters or mothers.
Jeremiah 50:30-32
New International Version
30 Therefore, her young men(A) will fall in the streets;
all her soldiers will be silenced in that day,”
declares the Lord.
31 “See, I am against(B) you, you arrogant one,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
“for your day(C) has come,
the time for you to be punished.
32 The arrogant(D) one will stumble and fall(E)
and no one will help her up;(F)
I will kindle a fire(G) in her towns
that will consume all who are around her.”
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