Jer 23:39 | JFB | STEP | 39. I will . . . forget you —just retribution for their forgetting Him ( ). But God cannot possibly forget His children ( ). Rather for "forget" translate, "I will altogether lift you up (like a 'burden,' alluding to their mocking term for God's messages) and cast you off." God makes their wicked language fall on their own head [CALVIN ]. Compare : "every man's word shall be his burden."

Jeremiah 23:39

39. I will . . . forget you—just retribution for their forgetting Him (Ho 4:6). But God cannot possibly forget His children (Isa 49:15). Rather for "forget" translate, "I will altogether lift you up (like a 'burden,' alluding to their mocking term for God's messages) and cast you off." God makes their wicked language fall on their own head [CALVIN]. Compare Jer 23:36: "every man's word shall be his burden."