Jer 50:31 | NET2full | STEP | “ Listen ! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies . “ Indeed , your day of reckoning has come , the time when I will punish you.

Jeremiah 50:31

31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” ^{▼▼tn Heb “Behold, I am against you, proud one.” The word “city” is not in the text, but it is generally agreed that the word is being used as a personification of the city, which had “proudly defied” the Lord (v. 29). The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarity.}
says the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies. ^{▼▼tn Heb “oracle of the Lord Yahweh of Armies.” For the rendering of this title and an explanation of its significance, see the study note on 2:19.}
“Indeed, ^{▼▼tn The particle כִּי (ki) is probably asseverative here (so J. A. Thompson, Jeremiah [NICOT], 739, n. 13, and cf. BDB 472 s.v. כִּי 1.e for other examples). This has been a common use of this particle in the book of Jeremiah.} your day of reckoning ^{▼▼tn The words “of reckoning” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.} has come,
the time when I will punish you. ^{▼▼sn Cf. v. 27.}