Jeremiah

The name that is transliterated as “Jeremiah” in English is translated in American Sign Language with the sign signifying “prophet (seeing into the future)” and “crying.” (Source: Phil King in Journal of Translation 16/2 2020, p. 33ff.)


“Jeremiah” in American Sign Language (source )

In Swiss-German Sign Language it is translated with a sign that depicts to lament often.


“Jeremiah” in Swiss-German Sign Language, source: DSGS-Lexikon biblischer Begriffe , © CGG Schweiz

Following is a Russian Orthodox icon of Jeremiah from the 18th century (found in the Transfiguration Church, Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia).

 
Orthodox Icons are not drawings or creations of imagination. They are in fact writings of things not of this world. Icons can represent our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints. They can also represent the Holy Trinity, Angels, the Heavenly hosts, and even events. Orthodox icons, unlike Western pictures, change the perspective and form of the image so that it is not naturalistic. This is done so that we can look beyond appearances of the world, and instead look to the spiritual truth of the holy person or event. (Source )

Translation commentary on Jeremiah 25:13

Good News Translation makes it clear that land is Babylonia.

In this context the words which I have uttered would be better expressed as “my threats” (Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch has “the fulfillment of what I have threatened”) or “the disasters that I threatened” (Good News Translation). Bible en français courant has “the misfortunes that I have said.”

Everything written in this book: Book is more accurately “scroll” (Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch). However, very few translations say “scroll,” using instead “book” or “these writings.” Everything written is a passive construction that does not say who wrote these things. This is a problem in languages that require that an agent be named, because it is probably not correct to say that Jeremiah himself was the writer. This book may refer to the original prophecies of Jeremiah written on a scroll by Baruch; that scroll was destroyed by King Jehoiakim (see chapter 36). If there is an impersonal construction in the translator’s language, it can be used; for example “which they have [or, one has] written.” Another possibility is to say “which you can read in this book.”

Good News Translation combines the meaning of against it with against all the nations: “on the nations.” Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch has “to each individual nation.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .