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Jeremiah 13:17

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13:17But if you will not pay attention to this warning,42

I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride.

I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears43

because you, the Lord’s flock,44 will be carried45 into exile.”

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “If you will not listen to it.” For the use of the feminine singular pronoun to refer to the idea(s) expressed in the preceding verse(s), see §135.p.
  2. 43 Heb “Tearing [my eye] will tear and my eye will run down [= flow] with tears.” The depth of Jeremiah’s sorrow for the sad plight of his people, if they refuse to repent, is emphasized by the triple repetition of the word “tears” twice in an emphatic verbal expression (Hebrew infinitive before finite verb) and once in the noun.
  3. 44 Heb “because the Lord’s flock will …” The pronoun “you” is supplied in the translation to avoid the shift in English from the second person address at the beginning to the third person affirmation at the end. It also helps explain the metaphor of the people of Israel as God’s flock for some readers who may be unfamiliar with that metaphor.
  4. 45 The verb is once again in the form of “as good as done” (the Hebrew prophetic perfect).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But if you will not listen,

my soul will weep in secret for your pride;

my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,

because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

If you do not listen,

I will weep in secret

because of your pride;

my eyes will weep bitterly,

overflowing with tears,

because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But if you will not listen,

my innermost being will weep in secret

because of your pride.

My eyes will overflow with tears,

for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

NLTNew Living Translation

And if you still refuse to listen,

I will weep alone because of your pride.

My eyes will overflow with tears,

because the Lord’s flock will be led away into exile.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But if you will not listen to it,

my inner self will weep in secret places,

because of the presence of your pride.

And my eyes will weep bitterly,

and they will melt in tears,

because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

KJV 1900King James Version

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.