Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 16

This is a scholarly parallel-Bible presentation of Jeremiah 16, displaying four textual traditions side by side: the King James Version annotated with Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text, and the Latin Vulgate. The passage opens with God commanding the prophet Jeremiah to remain unmarried and childless as a living sign of coming catastrophe — a deliberately countercultural act meant to embody the judgment about to fall on Judah. The bulk of the oracle describes that judgment in visceral terms: mass death without proper burial or mourning rites, famine, sword, and corpses left as carrion — with Jeremiah explicitly prohibited from participating in either mourning gatherings or feasting, because God has withdrawn peace, kindness, and mercy from the people. The theological indictment traces the disaster to intergenerational idolatry: the ancestors forsook God for other gods, and the present generation has exceeded even that wickedness by following their own evil hearts. The passage closes, however, with two striking reversals — a promise that the coming restoration from exile (framed as a new Exodus surpassing the original) will redefine Israel's core confession, and a vision of the nations themselves eventually arriving to renounce their inherited idols and acknowledge YHWH. The parallel-text format serves text critics and translators comparing how different ancient traditions render the same Hebrew source, with the Strong's numbers making it particularly useful for word-level lexical study.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 16

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