In order to help you catch the meaning of this book, I am reading the section headings and also I am explicating what is shown by quote marks in the NLT text, saying whether it is God or Jeremiah who is speaking. This information, which is of course added by our modern editors, is very helpful to us modern readings and listeners. Yesterday's reading had this ironic statement spoken by the Lord:
‘Why did the LORD our God do all this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’
Translation notes:
8“‘Don’t be fooled into thinking that you will never suffer because the Temple is here. [That’s/It’s] a lie!
11Don’t you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on [here/there]. I, the LORD, have spoken!
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/jer.7.nlt
David received the answer to his prayer in verse 5, if this was written before his affair with Bathsheba. Nathan did what David prayed for here. This psalm contains gems that are well worth digging for and meditating on.
https://www.bible.com/bible/116/psa.141
We heard of Jesus’ trial yesterday, and start in verse 16 as Jesus is being led away to be crucified.
Translation notes:
3“Hail[ to you,!] King of the Jews!” they
mocked, as they slapped him across the face.
12Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders shouted, “If you release this man, you are no ‘friend of [the high king] Caesar.’b Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”
24So they said, “Rather than tearing it apart, let’s throw dicee for it.” This fulfilled the Scripture that says, “They divided my garments among themselves and threw dice for my clothing.”f So that is what they did [(without knowing they were fulfilling Scripture)].
26When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, “Dear woman, [there/here] is your son.”
Here and in verse 27, the literal Greek is “See-imperative.” It is a matter of interpretation whether in the first instance Jesus could be saying, “See what I have become,” or, “Look at that guy next to you. He is your son.” The difference would be a nod of the head or a motion of Jesus’ eyes. I think that Jesus’ intention was correctly interpreted by John in 27b.
27And he said to this disciple, “[That/Here] is your mother.” And from then on this disciple took her into his home.
31It was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn’t want the bodies hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath, because it was the Passover). So they asked Pilate to hasten [the deaths of the crucified men//their deaths] by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down.
35([John writes a parenthetical comment:] This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account. [I speak/He speaks] the truth so that you also can believe.h)
37and “They will look on the one they [have] pierced.”
https://www.bible.com/bible/68/jhn.19
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