Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 10

This is a parallel-text scholarly edition of Jeremiah 10 presenting the same biblical chapter in four versions simultaneously: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The passage is a prophetic polemic in which the prophet, speaking for God, contrasts the impotence of idol worship — craftsmen who cut wood, dress it in silver and gold, and nail it upright — with the incomparable power of Israel's God, who made the earth, stretches out the heavens, and commands thunder and rain. The text's central argument is that the customs of the nations are "vanity": idols cannot walk, speak, do harm, or do good, and their makers are shamed by them. The passage shifts from polemic to lamentation as the prophet mourns the coming destruction of Judah — described as a ruined tent with broken cords — attributed to faithless shepherds (leaders) who never sought God, with an invading force from the north approaching. It closes with a famous theological concession ("the way of man is not in himself") and a prayer asking for correction in justice rather than wrath, and for God's fury to fall instead on nations that do not know him. The distinctive scholarly interest of this edition lies in the variant ordering and content of verses across the four traditions, particularly the Septuagint, which notably rearranges several verses (e.g., v. 9 appears after v. 4) and omits some material present in the Hebrew.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 10

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