For it is a lie which they are prophesying to you: In Hebrew lie is placed in the emphatic position. This emphasis is well brought out in Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch “But they lie!”

With the result that you will be is rendered “and will cause you to be” by Good News Translation. You will be removed may need to be expressed with an active verb and an agent, as in “enemies will take you away.”

And I will drive you out: See 8.3. The use of the conjunction and may be misleading. This clause and the one that follows (and you will perish) are explanations of how the people will be removed from their land. It will be the result of lies, but the LORD will be the one who drives them out of their land.

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 .