For Behold see 1.6.

The days are coming: Good News Translation has “The time is coming.” See 7.32.

Fulfil the promise is literally “perform the good word.” Translators can also say “do what I promised.” See 29.10.

The house of Israel and the house of Judah may be combined into “the people of Israel and Judah” (Good News Translation, Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch). See 5.11.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .