Jer 29:11 | NET2full | STEP | For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord . ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope .

Jeremiah 29:11

11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ^{▼▼tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”} ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you ^{▼▼tn Heb “I know the plans that I am planning for you, oracle of the Lord, plans of well-being and not for harm, to give to you….”} a future filled with hope. ^{▼▼tn Or “the future you hope for”; Heb “a future and a hope.” This is a good example of hendiadys, where two formally coordinated nouns (adjectives, verbs) convey a single idea because one of the terms functions as a qualifier of the other. For this figure see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 658-72. This example is discussed on p. 661.}