27 The words “People of Babylonia” are not in the text but they are implicit in the reference in the next verse to “your mother” which refers to the city and the land as the mother of its people. These words have been supplied in the translation to identify the referent of “you” and have been added for clarity.
28 Or “my land.” The word can refer to either the land (Jer 2:7, 16:8) or the nation/people (Jer 12:7, 8, 9).
29 Reading כְּעֶגְלֵי דֶשֶׁא (ké’egle deshe’) or כְּעֵגֶל בַּדֶּשֶׁא (ké’egel baddeshe’) as presupposed by the Greek and Latin versions (cf. note d-d) in place of the reading in the Hebrew text כְּעֶגְלָה דָשָׁה (ké’eglah dashah, “like a heifer treading out the grain”) which does not fit the verb (פּוּשׁ [push] = “spring about” [ 807 I פּוּשׁ] or “paw the ground” [ 756 פּוּשׁ] and compare Mal 3:20 for usage). This variant reading is also accepted by J. Bright, J. A. Thompson, F. B. Huey, and G. L. Keown, P. J. Scalise, T. G. Smothers.
30 Heb “Though you rejoice, though you exult, you who have plundered my heritage, though you frolic like calves in a pasture and neigh like stallions, your mother …” The particle כִּי (ki) introduces a concessive protasis according to 473 כִּי 2.c(a). Many interpret the particle as introducing the grounds for the next verse, i.e., “because …” The translation here will reflect the concessive by beginning the next verse with “But.” The long protasis has been broken up and restructured to better conform with contemporary English style.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Though you rejoice, though you exult,

O plunderers of my heritage,

though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture,

and neigh like stallions,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Because you rejoice and are glad,

you who pillage my inheritance,

because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain

and neigh like stallions,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Because you rejoice,

because you celebrate—

you who plundered my inheritance—

because you frolic like a young cow treading grain

and neigh like stallions,

NLTNew Living Translation

“You rejoice and are glad,

you who plundered my chosen people.

You frisk about like a calf in a meadow

and neigh like a stallion.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Though you rejoice, though you exult,

O plunderers of my inheritance,

though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass,

and you neigh like the powerful stallions,

KJV 1900King James Version

Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced,

O ye destroyers of mine heritage,

Because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass,

And bellow as bulls;

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