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23 lines
783 B
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# Yahweh, you are my stronghold
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Here Jeremiah begins speaking to Yahweh. The ULB sets poetry (16:19-21) farther to the right to show that it is poetry. The poem continues in chapter 17, and should be seen as one section.
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# my stronghold and my refuge, my place of safety
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Jeremiah speaks of Yahweh as a place where enemies cannot attack him.
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# The nations will go to you
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"The people from the nations will go to you" or "The people of the nations will come to you"
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# the ends of the earth
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"the farthest places on the earth" or "everywhere on earth"
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# our ancestors inherited deceit
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"our ancestors inherited nothing but false gods"
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# They are empty; there is no profit in them
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The words "They" and "them" refer to the false gods that the ancestors taught them to believe in. |