Jeremia 29:18

Lutherbibel

und will hinter ihnen her sein mit Schwert, Hunger und Pestilenz und will sie in keinem Königreich auf Erden bleiben lassen, daß sie sollen zum Fluch, zum Wunder, zum Hohn und zum Spott unter allen Völkern werden, dahin ich sie verstoßen werde,

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
und ich will sie mit dem Schwert, mit Hungersnot und Pest verfolgen und will sie zum Schrecken für alle Königreiche der Erde machen, zum Fluch und zum Entsetzen, zum Spott und zum Hohn unter allen Völkern, dahin ich sie verstoßen habe,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will deliver: Jeremiah 15:4, Jeremiah 24:9, Jeremiah 34:17, Leviticus 26:33, Deuteronomy 28:25, Deuteronomy 28:64, 2 Chronicles 29:8, Psalms 44:11, Ezekiel 6:8, Ezekiel 12:15, Ezekiel 22:15, Ezekiel 36:19, Amos 9:9, Zechariah 7:14, Luke 21:24

to be a curse: Heb. for a curse, Jeremiah 29:22, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 26:6, Jeremiah 42:18, Deuteronomy 29:21-28, 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 9:8, 2 Chronicles 7:19-22, 2 Chronicles 29:8, Isaiah 65:15, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 2:16

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:25 - I will send Numbers 5:27 - the woman Nehemiah 1:3 - reproach Psalms 89:41 - he is Jeremiah 14:12 - but Jeremiah 29:17 - Behold Jeremiah 38:2 - He Jeremiah 44:8 - a curse Jeremiah 51:37 - an hissing Daniel 9:16 - Jerusalem Zechariah 8:13 - a curse

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine,

and with the pestilence,.... Or, "follow after a them"; such as should make their escape out of the city, and go into Egypt, or other countries, for shelter and safety, should be pursued by the vengeance of God, and should fall by sword, famine, or pestilence, in other places:

and will deliver them; such as should not perish by the above mentioned calamities:

to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth; where they should be scattered, and live in exile: or "for a shaking to all the kingdoms of the earth" b; who should shake and tremble at such a dreadful spectacle of vengeance; or rather they should shake and tremble at the wrath of God upon them; or else their enemies, among whom they should be, should shake their heads at them, by way of insult and triumph over them:

to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach,

among all the nations whither I have driven them; where men shall look at them with amazement, and curse theft, and hiss at them, and reproach them, as the offscouring of the world.

a ורדפתי אחריהם "et persequar post eos", Calvin, Piscator. b לזועה "in commotionem", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses are not in the Septuagint. But the text of the Septuagint is here throughout so brief and confused as to be explicable only on the supposition, that it represents what was left behind in Egypt when Jeremiah died, copied probably with extreme haste, and with no opportunity of careful collation afterward. On the other hand the Hebrew text represents no hurried transcript, but the original manuscript, and is especially trustworthy in the case of these letters sent to Babylon (see also Jeremiah 51:0), because the originals of them would be available for collation with the text preserved by Jeremiah himself. The verses were probably intended to allay excitement in Babylon consequent upon the knowledge that the representatives of various kings were assembled at that very time at Jerusalem to form a coalition against Babylon Jeremiah 27:3.

Jeremiah 29:17

Vile - The word does not occur elsewhere, but comes from a root signifying to shudder, and thus has an intense meaning.