Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 5

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Jeremiah chapter 5, displaying the passage simultaneously in three versions: the King James Version (KJV) with Strong's concordance numbers appended to each word, the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, labeled "Sep"), and the Hebrew Masoretic text (labeled "Tan"). The chapter is a prophetic indictment of Jerusalem and Judah, in which God charges that not a single just or faithful person can be found in the city, making pardon impossible. The central argument moves through escalating accusations: the people swear falsely, refuse correction despite punishment, commit adultery and idolatry, and both the poor and the elite have alike broken covenant with God. A recurring and distinctive rhetorical feature is God's rhetorical refrain — "Shall I not visit for these things?" — punctuating the charges with the logic that such pervasive wickedness demands divine judgment, here figured as invading predators (lion, wolf, leopard) and an unnamed distant nation that will devour Israel's harvests, children, and cities. The chapter closes with a notably bitter observation: the prophets prophesy falsely, the priests rule by their own authority, and the people love it that way — positioning institutional religious corruption as the capstone sin. Scholars or students doing textual criticism, comparative translation work, or studying the Jeremiah tradition would find the three-column format directly useful for comparing how the Hebrew, Greek, and early modern English renderings diverge.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 5

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