Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Jeremias 29:7

עון Lit. iniquity; here it means the punishment for the iniquity. Comp. עון punishment (1 Sam. 28:10; Gen. 15:16;⁶The passage referred to is כי לא שלם עון האמרי for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (A.V.). It requires, however, to be proved that עון in this passage means punishment. Lam. 4:6). Some explain הפגיע he caused to pray; עון has, according to their opinion, the usual meaning iniquity; and the sense of the whole phrase is: God will accept the prayer of Israel, that peace shall be on earth. Comp. And seek the peace of the city, etc. (Jer. 29:7). But עון in this sense, joined with הפגיע בו, is rather an unusual construction.⁷If פגע ב means to pray to, the meaning of the Hiphil הפגיע ב is, to cause to pray to, and also, to accept the prayer, if the noun governed by the preposition ב is the same as the subject to the verb הפגיע; and הפגיע בר is to be translated, He caused to pray to Himself; if, therefore, the phrase הפגיע בו is followed by a noun in the accusative, this must express either the person who is caused to pray, or the object of the prayer. The accusative עון is neither the one nor the other, since in the latter case, not the iniquity but the atonement for the iniquity, not the punishment, but the cancelling of the punishment, (not עון but כפרת עון) is the object of the prayer.

He prayed to God for the transgressors. Comp. Jer. 29:7. By the transgressors, the heathen nations are meant.¹⁸That vexed and illtreated Israel.