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therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
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A Divine Play on Words
Multiple commentators highlight a powerful play on words in the original Hebrew. The people mockingly called God's prophecy a 'burden' (massa). In response, God uses a related verb, declaring He will 'take them up as a burden' and cast them away. While some translations say 'forget,' the core idea is that God's judgment directly and poetically fits their specific sin of disrespecting His word.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Translate, Therefore, behold, I will even take you up (or will burden you), and I will cast you, and the city which I gave you and your fathers…
19th Century
Anglican
I, even I, will utterly forget you ... —A very slight alteration in a single letter of the Hebrew verb gives a rendering …
16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet confirms what he had said, for God might have seemed to be too indignant, having been so grievously offended at one short expressi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you That is, so behave towards them, as though they were entirely …
Those are indeed miserable who are forsaken and forgotten by God; and people's jesting at God's judgments will not thwart them. God had taken Israe…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, the prophet threatens those who mock the prophets. Just as they ridiculed Isaiah in his day, saying, “Command, command again, e…
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