Jeremiah 21-36 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by (Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)

32 Jeremiah 21-36: A Translation

the hill country and in the cities of the Shephelah and in the cities of the

Negeb; for I will surely restore their fortunes-oracle of Yahweh.

C. More on Restoration and Covenants (33:1-26)

1. I Will Tell You Great and Hidden Things! (33:1-3)
   33 1 And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was
   still confined in the court of the guard:

(^2) Thus said Yahweh who made it
Yahweh who formed it to establish it
Yahweh is his name!
(^3) Call to me and I will answer you
and let me tell you great things and hidden things
you have not known.

2. Healed City, Healed People (33:4-9)
   33 4 For thus said Yahweh, God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city
   and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah that were broken down to-
   ward the siege ramps and toward the sword,^5 those coming to fight the Chal-
   deans only to fill them with the corpses of men whom I struck down in my
   anger and my wrath, and because I hid my face from this city on account of
   all their evil:

(^6) Look I am going to bring to it new flesh and healing, and I will heal them
and I will reveal to them the sweet smell of peace and security.^7 And I will
surely restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and I will
build them as at first.^8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by
which they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities by
which they sinned against me and by which they rebelled against me.
(^9) And it shall be to me a joyful name, a praise, and a glorious decoration be-
fore all the nations of the earth who shall hear all the good that I am doing
to them; they shall tremble and they shall shake on account of all the good
and on account of all the peace that I am doing for it.

3. Two Promises of Return (33:10-13)
   a) The Return of Joyful Sounds (33:10-11)
   3 3^10 Thus said Yahweh:
   Again it shall be heard in this place-of which you are saying, 'It is a waste,
   without human and without beast,' in the cities of Judah and in the streets
   of Jerusalem that are deserted without human and without inhabitant and
   without beast-^11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
   groom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those saying,