Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 4

This is a parallel-text presentation of Jeremiah chapter 4, displaying three distinct textual traditions side by side: the King James Version in English (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Hebrew Masoretic Text. It belongs to the genre of prophetic literature within the Hebrew Bible, in the tradition of the classical prophets. The chapter opens with a conditional call to repentance addressed to Israel and Judah: God promises restoration if the people remove their idolatrous "abominations" and circumcise their hearts rather than merely their flesh. This is followed by an urgent warning of devastating invasion approaching from the north, described through the imagery of a lion leaving its thicket and an army swift as eagles, prompting calls to flee to fortified cities. The chapter's most distinctive passage (vv. 23–26) presents a vision of cosmic uncreation — the prophet looks at the earth and finds it "without form and void," mountains trembling, birds vanished, cities obliterated — deliberately echoing the language of Genesis 1 to depict judgment as a reversal of creation itself. Jeremiah's own anguished interjection (vv. 19–22) is unusually personal, with the prophet crying out in visceral grief at the sounds of war, accusing God of deceiving the people with false promises of peace. The parallel-column format is aimed at scholars or serious students comparing textual traditions, as the interleaved Strong's numbers in the KJV column indicate this comes from a concordance-based Bible study resource. Readers interested in prophetic poetry, textual criticism, or the theological theme of divine judgment as cosmic reversal will find the most value here.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 4

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