Jeremiah the prophet: It may not be necessary at this stage in the book to identify Jeremiah as the prophet. Good News Translation shifts to a first person reference for Jeremiah.

Spoke all these words is rendered “repeated all these words” by New Jerusalem Bible. New American Bible renders “told all these things” and Good News Translation “gave this message.”

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 .