10 Or “Through your own fault you will lose the land …” As W. McKane (Jeremiah [], 1:) notes the ancient versions do not appear to be reading וּבְךָ (uvékha) as in the but possibly לְבַדְּךָ (lévaddékha; see fn). The translation follows the suggestion in fn that יָדְךָ (yadékha, literally “your hand”) be read for וּבְךָ. This has the advantage of fitting the idiom of this verb with “hand” in Deut 15:2 (see also v. 3 there). The Hebrew text thus reads “You will release your hand from your heritage.”
11 A few Hebrew and two Greek read “a fire is kindled in my anger” (reading קָדְחָה, qodkha) as in 15:14 in place of “you have kindled a fire in my anger” (reading קָדַחְתֶּם, qadakhtem) in the majority of Hebrew and versions. The variant may be explained on the basis of harmonization with the parallel passage. Heb “you have started a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Through your own fault you will lose

the inheritance I gave you.

I will enslave you to your enemies

in a land you do not know,

for you have kindled my anger,

and it will burn forever.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritance

that I gave you.

I will make you serve your enemies

in a land you do not know,

for you have set my anger on fire;

it will burn forever.

NLTNew Living Translation

The wonderful possession I have reserved for you

will slip from your hands.

I will tell your enemies to take you

as captives to a foreign land.

For my anger blazes like a fire

that will burn forever.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you will let go your hand from your inheritance

that I gave to you,

and I will make you serve your enemies

in the land that you do not know,

for you kindled a fire in my anger,

until eternity it will be kindled.”

And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

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