[1] In this chapter, Jeremiah identified the length of the time of exile as seventy years (verses 11-12).

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton.

[3] The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX.

[4] Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJerc (4Q72; 1st century BC),[5] with extant verses 7‑8, 15‑17, 24‑26 (similar to Masoretic Text).

The bracketed words, "which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon", are doubted to be original as they are not included in the Septuagint.

[24] According to biblical commentator A. W. Streane, "at this point there presents itself one of the most marked discrepancies between the Septuagint Version of Jeremiah and the Hebrew.

[29] "Sheshach" (ששך‎): means "Babylon" (בבל‎, babel; also in Jeremiah 51:41), cryptically written using the "Atbash" monoalphabetic substitution cipher system.