The proud one: See verse 31. If this is retained as a name, translators can say, for example, “You [who are named] ‘Proud One.’ ”

I will kindle a fire in his cities is better rendered “I will set the cities of Babylonia [or, your cities] on fire.”

Devour; that is, “destroy.” See 8.16.

Round about him; that is, “around the proud one, that proud nation.”

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 .