24 Heb “making this valley cisterns, cisterns.” The Hebrew noun גֵּב (gev) means “cistern” in Jer 14:3 (cf. Jer 39:10). The repetition of the noun is for emphasis. See §123.e. The verb (“making”) is an infinitive absolute, which has to be interpreted in light of the context. The translation above takes it in an imperatival sense. The command need not be understood as literal, but as hyperbolic. Telling them to build cisterns is a dramatic way of leading into the announcement that he would miraculously provide water in the desert. Some prefer to translate the infinitive as an imperfect with the Lord as the understood subject, “I will turn this valley [into] many pools.”

In other versions

And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’

and he said, “This is what the Lord says: I will fill this valley with pools of water.

Then he said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Dig ditch after ditch in this wadi.’

and he said, “This is what the Lord says: This dry valley will be filled with pools of water!

He said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Make this wadi full of cisterns,’

And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches.

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