OET interlinear YIR (JER) 29:17

uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) Yahweh of hosts says this

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH armies/messengers here,I send on,them DOM the=drought//sword/knife DOM (the),famine and=DOM (the),pestilence and,I_will_make ,them like,figs (the),rotten which/who not eaten from,badness )

Jeremiah often uses these words to introduce an important message from Yahweh. See how you translated this in Jeremiah 6:6.

(Occurrence 0) See

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH armies/messengers here,I send on,them DOM the=drought//sword/knife DOM (the),famine and=DOM (the),pestilence and,I_will_make ,them like,figs (the),rotten which/who not eaten from,badness )

This alerts the reader to pay attention to what follows. Alternate translation: [Look] or [Listen] or [Pay attention]

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 0) I am about to send sword, famine, and disease on them

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH armies/messengers here,I send on,them DOM the=drought//sword/knife DOM (the),famine and=DOM (the),pestilence and,I_will_make ,them like,figs (the),rotten which/who not eaten from,badness )

The word “sword” is a metonym for war. Alternate translation: [I am going to punish them by having them die in war, from hunger, and from illness]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

(Occurrence 0) For I will make them like rotten figs that are too bad to be eaten

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH armies/messengers here,I send on,them DOM the=drought//sword/knife DOM (the),famine and=DOM (the),pestilence and,I_will_make ,them like,figs (the),rotten which/who not eaten from,badness )

Rotten figs are useless because they cannot be eaten, and Yahweh sees no use for the people of Israel.