For sword, famine, and pestilence, see 14.12.

Be utterly destroyed translates the same verb rendered “shall be consumed” in 14.15. Good News Translation is clear: “until there is not one of them left.”

As in 2.5, fathers refers to “ancestors” (Good News Translation).

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 .