^32:30This will happen because the people of Israel and Judah have repeatedly done what displeases me⁵⁹ from their earliest history until now⁶⁰ and because they⁶¹ have repeatedly made me angry by the things they have done.⁶² I, the Lord, affirm it!⁶³^32:31This will happen because⁶⁴ the people of this city have aroused my anger and my wrath since the time they built it until now.⁶⁵ They have made me so angry that I am determined to remove⁶⁶ it from my sight. ^32:32I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem⁶⁷ have done this wickedness.⁶⁸^32:33They have turned away from me instead of turning to me.⁶⁹ I tried over and over again⁷⁰ to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.⁷¹

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Footnotes

59 Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.” For this idiom see 744 עַיִן 3.c and compare usage in 18:10.
60 Heb “from their youth.” Compare Jer 3:24–25; 11:21. The nation is being personified and reference is made to her history from the time she left Egypt onward (cf. 2:2).
61 Heb “the people of Israel.” However, since “people of Israel” has been used in the preceding line for the northern kingdom as opposed to the kingdom of Judah, it might lead to confusion to translate literally. Moreover, the pronoun “they” accomplishes the same purpose.
62 Heb “by the work of their hands.” See the translator’s note on and the parallelism in 25:14 for this rendering rather than referring it to the making of idols as in 1:16; 10:3.
63 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
64 The statements in vv. 28–29 regarding the certain destruction of the city are motivated by three parallel causal clauses in vv. 30a, b, 31, the last of which extends through subordinate and coordinate clauses until the end of v. 35. An attempt has been made to bring out this structure by repeating the idea “This/it will happen” in front of each of these causal clauses in the English translation.
65 Heb “from the day they built it until this day.” The Israelites did not in fact “build” Jerusalem. They captured it from the Jebusites in the time of David. This refers perhaps to the enlarging and fortifying of the city after it came into the hands of the Israelites (2 Sam 5:6–10).
66 Heb “For this city has been to me for a source of my anger and my wrath from the day they built it until this day so as remove it.” The preposition ְל (lamed) with the infinitive (Heb “so as to remove it”; לַהֲסִירָהּ, lahasirah) expresses degree (cf. R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 37, §199, and compare usage in 2 Sam 13:2).
67 For location see ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
68 Heb “remove it from my sight 32:33 because of all the wickedness of the children of Israel and the children of Judah which they have done to make me angry, they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.” The sentence has been broken up in conformity with contemporary English style and an attempt has been made to preserve the causal connections.
69 Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27.
70 For the idiom involved here see the translator’s note on . The verb that introduces this clause is a Piel infinitive absolute which is functioning in place of the finite verb (see, e.g., §113.ff and compare usage in Jer 8:15; 14:19. This grammatical point means that the versions cited in fn a may not be reading a different text after all, but may merely be interpreting the form as syntactically equivalent to a finite verb as the present translation has done.). This refers to God teaching them through the prophets whom he has sent as indicated by the repeated use of this idiom elsewhere in 7:13, 25; 11:7; 25:3, 4; 26:5, 19.
71 Heb “But they were not listening so as to accept correction.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the Lord. This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger with what their hands have made, declares the Lord. From the day it was built until now, this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight. The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done—they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem. They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands” —this is the Lord’s declaration—“for this city has caused my wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. I will therefore remove it from my presence because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again, they do not listen and receive discipline.

NLTNew Living Translation

Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds,” says the Lord. “From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.

“The sins of Israel and Judah—the sins of the people of Jerusalem, the kings, the officials, the priests, and the prophets—have stirred up my anger. My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return. Even though I diligently taught them, they would not receive instruction or obey.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the people of Israel were only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands,” declares Yahweh.

“For this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my sight, because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned to me their backs and not their faces, though I have taught them over and over again, but they were not listening to accept discipline.

KJV 1900King James Version

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord. For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

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