diff --git a/jer/22/28.md b/jer/22/28.md index e5228dacdc..2fd2baf8b2 100644 --- a/jer/22/28.md +++ b/jer/22/28.md @@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ It is not clear who is speaking in verse 28. # Is this a despised and shattered vessel? Is this man Jehoiachin a pot that pleases no one? -Jehoiachin is spoken of as a pot that was completely worthless and not liked by anyone. The questions emphasize that he has no value or friends. Alternate translation: "Jehoiachin is as useless as a broken vessel and no one is happy with him." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]]) +"Jehoiachin is as useless as a broken vessel and no one is happy with him." # Why have they thrown him and his descendants out, and have poured them out into a land that they did not know? -This rhetorical question explains what will happen to the worthless Jehoiachin. Alternate translation: "Therefore the enemy will remove Jehoiachin and his family from the land and take them to a foreign land." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]]) +"Therefore the enemy will remove Jehoiachin and his family from the land and take them to a foreign land." # have poured them out -Jehoiachin and his descendants are spoke of as if they had been poured out in another country like garbage from a vessel. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]]) - +Jehoiachin and his descendants are spoke of like garbage from a vessel. \ No newline at end of file