Charged … saying: Here again saying is used as the equivalent of a marker for direct discourse, this time following the verb charged. Charged has the meaning of “instructed,” but in this context “said” is certainly adequate too.

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 .