Thus says the LORD: See 2.2. Here the words are addressed to Baruch, so it is sometimes helpful to add “to you” (see Good News Translation).

The LORD of hosts: See 2.19.

Earthenware vessel: As in Good News Translation, this is “a clay jar [or, pot].”

Last for a long time is literally “stand for many days.”

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 .