You shall not do this thing: This is an order, “Don’t do it!”

You are speaking falsely of Ishmael: Good News Translation renders this as “What you are saying about Ishmael is not true!” New Revised Standard Version has “you are telling a lie about Ishmael.”

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 .