unfoldingWord_en_tn/jer/23/19.md

# Connecting Statement:

Jeremiah continues to deliver Yahweh's message about the false prophets and priests that he began in [Jeremiah 23:9](./09.md).

# there is a storm coming from Yahweh ... His fury is going out ... a tempest is whirling about

These three phrases all refer to a great storm that is a metaphor for Yahweh's anger. This can be stated as a simile. AT: "Yahweh's anger is coming like a great storm, going out with fury and whirling like a tempest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

# a tempest

a violent windstorm

# It is whirling around the heads of the wicked

Yahweh's anger is spoken of as if it were a windstorm whirling around the wicked. AT: "It is coming upon the wicked like a windstorm" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])

# Yahweh's wrath will not return until it

Yahweh's wrath is spoken of as if it were alive and could act on its own. AT: "Yahweh will not stop being angry until he" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

# carried out and brought into being his heart's intentions

Here "heart's intentions" refers to the things that Yahweh wanted to happen. AT: "completed and accomplished all the punishment that he had planned" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# the final days

"the future"