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Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 19

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This is a synoptic presentation of Jeremiah 19 across four textual traditions: the King James Version (with interlinear Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The passage is a prophetic oracle in which God commands Jeremiah to take a clay flask, gather elders of the people and priests, and go to the Valley of Ben-Hinnom (Tophet) to pronounce divine judgment on Jerusalem. The indictment centers on Judah's apostasy — burning incense to foreign gods, filling the valley with innocent blood, and sacrificing children to Baal — practices God disavows as never commanded or intended. The threatened punishment is severe and visceral: the city will be shattered like an irreparable potter's vessel, the valley renamed the "Valley of Slaughter," and the besieged inhabitants reduced to cannibalism. Jeremiah enacts the oracle by smashing the flask before witnesses, then returns to the Temple court to repeat the condemnation to all the people. The four-column format invites textual comparison, notably showing the Septuagint's somewhat shorter and differently nuanced rendering alongside the fuller Hebrew and its Latin and English descendants.

Polyglot Bible: Jeremiah: Jeremiah 19

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