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Jeremiah 06 General Notes
Structure and formatting
Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in 6:1-30.
Special concepts in this chapter
Gods and battle
In the ancient Near East, it was commonly believed that a nation's gods were responsible for military victory. It may have been believed that a god would not defend an evil city. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/falsegod and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil)