Now: Good News Translation translates the transition as “After this.” “One day” (Bible en français courant) is good, too.

Forces in the open country: See verse 7.

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 .