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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

observe the right time to depart; but my people do not know what Yahweh’s order is. The words נאם יהוה צבאות ואמרת אליהם (vv. 3–4) are not indicated by Sept.BSA and both Rudolph and Bright regard ואמרת אליהם כה אמר יהוה as a redactional link. Nevertheless, the speaker in vv. 4–7 would appear to be Yahweh, and the only impediment to this assumption is את משׁפט יהוה (v. 7), since את משׁפטי would be more natural, but it is safer to grant the existence of a convention that Yahweh may refer to himself
Pages 183–184
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