{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_jer009_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_jer009_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_jer009_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/jer009.htm","summary":"This is a synoptic presentation of Jeremiah 9 (roughly vv. 1\u201326) displayed in three parallel columns: the King James Version with Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint, and the Hebrew Masoretic Text. The format is a scholarly comparative tool for studying textual traditions across the three major witnesses to the Hebrew prophetic corpus.\n\nThe passage is prophetic lament and divine speech: the prophet opens wishing he could flee the moral corruption of his people \u2014 pervasive lying, treachery between neighbors and brothers, adultery \u2014 and God responds by announcing judgment: Jerusalem will become a ruin, the cities of Judah desolate, the people fed wormwood and scattered among nations by the sword. A distinctive rhetorical movement calls professional mourning women to lead communal lamentation, and the haunting image of death \"climbing through our windows\" to kill children in the streets frames the catastrophe personally. The chapter closes with one of Jeremiah's most celebrated theological assertions: true boasting lies not in wisdom, power, or wealth, but in knowing God, who practices lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness \u2014 followed by the unsettling equalization of Judah with surrounding pagan nations, all condemned as \"uncircumcised in the heart.\" The three-column layout invites comparison of how the LXX (notably shorter and with some reordered verses) diverges from the MT, making this most useful to readers engaged in text-critical or translation-comparative study of the Hebrew Bible.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 9","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":2352}