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20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back
until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.[a]
In future days[b]
you people will come to understand this clearly.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 23:20 tn Heb “until he has acted and until he has carried out the purposes of his heart.”
  2. Jeremiah 23:20 sn Sometimes the phrase “in future days” may have a remote, even eschatological, reference. At other times it has more immediate reference as it does here and in the nearly identical 30:24, where it refers to the coming days of Babylonian conquest and exile. See also the note at Gen 49:1.
  3. Jeremiah 23:20 tn The translation is intended to reflect a Hebrew construction where a noun functions as the object of a verb from the same root word (the Hebrew cognate accusative).

20 The anger(A) of the Lord will not turn back(B)
    until he fully accomplishes
    the purposes of his heart.
In days to come
    you will understand it clearly.

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