Sword … famine … pestilence: See verse 8 and 14.12.

Good News Translation, Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch, and Bible en français courant each divide the verse into two sentences: a question (ending after pestilence), followed by a statement. However, for languages where the effect of such a rhetorical question would not be understood, translators can use a statement; for example, “It would be foolish for you and your people to die…, which is what the LORD has said will happen to….”

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 .