Jeremiah 40

Jeremiah 40:1

26

Jeremiah 40:2

27

28

29

Jeremiah 40:3

30

Jeremiah 40:4

31

32

Jeremiah 40:5

33

34

35

36

37

Jeremiah 40:6

38

Jeremiah 40:7

39

40

Jeremiah 40:8

41

42

43

44

Jeremiah 40:9

45

46

Jeremiah 40:10

47

48

49

50

51

52

Jeremiah 40:11

53

54

Jeremiah 40:12

55

56

57

Jeremiah 40:13

58

59

60

61

Jeremiah 40:15

1 sn Beginning with 9:1, the verse numbers through 9:26 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:1 ET = 8:23 HT, 9:2 ET = 9:1 HT, 9:3 ET = 9:2 HT, etc., through 9:26 ET = 9:25 HT. Beginning with 10:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

2 tn Heb “I wish that my head were water.”

3 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.

Jeremiah 40:16

4 tn Heb “I wish I had in the desert a lodging place [inn, or place to spend the night] for travelers.”

5 tn Or “bunch,” but this loses the irony; the word is used for the solemn assemblies at the religious feasts.

6 tn Heb “they are all adulterers, a congregation of unfaithful people.” However, spiritual adultery is, of course, meant, not literal adultery. So the literal translation would be misleading.