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Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 2

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This is a scholarly biblical text presenting Jeremiah chapter 2 in parallel columns: the King James Version with Strong's Concordance reference numbers interleaved, and the Greek Septuagint (LXX). The chapter is a prophetic oracle in which God, speaking through Jeremiah, indicts Israel for apostasy — abandoning their covenant relationship for idol worship. The central accusation is captured in the vivid image of Israel forsaking a "fountain of living waters" (God) to hew out broken cisterns that hold nothing. God recalls the tenderness of Israel's early devotion in the wilderness, then catalogues their failures: priests who do not seek God, prophets who prophesy by Baal, leaders who have turned their backs. The text is distinctive for its extended use of erotic and shame-based metaphors — Israel as a bride who has forgotten her wedding attire, as a promiscuous she-camel or wild ass in heat, as a vine that has turned bitter — to convey the depth of the betrayal. The parallel presentation of Hebrew (with numeric Strong's tags) alongside the Greek LXX makes this a text-critical resource, inviting comparison between the two ancient traditions and their occasionally divergent renderings of key terms and images.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 2

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