Says the LORD: See 1.8, and also verse 5 above.

The pronoun You is emphatic in the Hebrew text. Translators can render this “It is you who have rejected me.” Rejected translates the same verb rendered “forsaken” in 7.29.

You keep going backward is rendered “you have turned your backs on me” or “you have turned your back on me” by a number of translations (New Jerusalem Bible, Revised English Bible, New American Bible, Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch). Bright has “keep getting worse” and Moffatt “ever rebelling.” Translators can also say “You have walked away from me.”

I have stretched out my hand against you: See the comment at 6.12. Here possible translations are “I have taken action against you” or “I have taken action to punish you.”

I am weary of relenting: Relenting is first used in 4.28. The basic meaning is “regret” or “be sorry,” though it may mean “control your anger” (see Good News Translation). New International Version has “I can no longer show compassion.”

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 .