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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

In Hebrew both occurrences of the pronoun I are emphatic. TEV attempts to reproduce this emphasis by rendering, “I alone know the plans I have for you.…” GECL is very effective with a play on words, rendering “For my plans for you remain firm: I intend your fortune and not your misfortune.…” Another way to express this is “For I know what I am planning for you. I am planning good things, not bad things. What I plan to do will give you the future you hope for.” For welfare see verse 7; for evil see
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