Notice that Good News Translation has shifted the address form O LORD to the beginning the sentence, which translators in many other languages will also find more natural.

Some translators have difficulty with none. Good News Translation renders it “no one,” but in some languages it has to be “no power,” “nothing,” or “no God.”

Great in might is a Hebrew phrase meaning “great and mighty” (Good News Translation “great and powerful”) or “very powerful.” Inasmuch as a name represents the person or the person’s reputation, we may translate “You are powerful and known for your strength.”

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 .