I have plucked them up: Most translators attempt to use the same expression in this verse for plucked … up as they used in verse 14. It may be important to identify them in this verse as “all these people” (Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch).

Have compassion is first used in 6.23, where Revised Standard Version translates “have … mercy.”

Each to his heritage and each to his land is translated “each nation back to its own land and to its own country” by Good News Translation. It is permissible either to equate heritage and land (“to their own land and country”) or else to allow heritage to modify land (“to their own land” or “to the land that they once possessed”).

Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch renders this verse:

• Then I will again have mercy on all these people: they will each return to their own land and to their own possessions.

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 .