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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to speak to the people of Israel.
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# Report this
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"Tell this"
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# the house of Jacob
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The word "house" is a metonym for the family that lives in the house. In this case it refers to Jacob's descendants. Translate "house of Jacob" as in [Jeremiah 2:4](../02/04.md). AT: "descendants of Jacob" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# let it be heard in Judah
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This can be expressed in active from. AT: "Let those in Judah hear it" or "announce it in Judah" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# who have no understanding
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"who do not understand" or "who understand nothing"
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# you cannot see
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Here "cannot see" is a metonym for not understanding. AT: "you do not understand" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# you cannot hear
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Here "cannot hear" represents not understanding. "AT: "you do not understand" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# this is Yahweh's declaration
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Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:8](../01/07.md). AT: "this is what Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh, have declared" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person]])
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# Do you not fear me ... face?
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that the people are extremely foolish because they do not fear Yahweh. AT: "It is foolish that you do not fear me ... face!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# or tremble before my face
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The trembling would be because of fear, and being "before my face" represents being aware of who God is. AT: "or shake with fear because of me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# I have placed a border of sand against the sea
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"I placed the sand as the border for the sea"
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# an ongoing decree that it does not violate
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God speaks of the ocean not going past the border of sand as if the border were a law, and as if the ocean were a person who obeys the law. AT: "an everlasting limit that it cannot cross" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# rises and falls
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"moves back and forth"
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# it does not violate it
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"the ocean does not violate my decree." God speaks of ocean not going past the border of sand as if the border were a law, and as if the ocean were a person who obeys the law. AT: "it does not succeed in going past the border" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/report]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/house]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/jacob]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/judah]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/foolish]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/fear]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/tremble]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/face]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/decree]] |