Jeremiah 30 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 30:16, 30:21
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
Chapter 30
Jeremiah 30
Hebrew source: BHS30 • chapter 30
Greek source: LXX37 • chapter 37
Verse 30:1 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:1] The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:1] The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both introduce the restoration collection. Hebrew chapter thirty aligns with Greek chapter thirty-seven.
Verse 30:2 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:2] Thus says YHWH, Israel's God: Write for yourself in a scroll all the words I spoke to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:2] Thus said the Lord, Israel's God: Write in a book all the words I delivered to you as oracles,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek uses oracular delivery rather than ordinary speech and lacks for yourself.
Verse 30:3 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:3] For look, days are coming—YHWH's declaration—when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah, says YHWH. I will bring them back to the land I gave their fathers, and they will possess it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:3] because look, days are coming, says the Lord, and I will return the deportees of My people Israel and Judah, said the Lord. I will return them to the land I gave their fathers, and they will rule over it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew restoring fortunes or captivity corresponds to Greek returning deportees; Greek rule is more explicit than Hebrew possess.
Verse 30:4 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:4] These are the words YHWH spoke concerning Israel and Judah:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:4] And these are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both identify the message's twofold audience.
Verse 30:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:5] For thus says YHWH: We have heard a sound of trembling, dread and no peace.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:5] Thus said the Lord: You will hear a sound of fear—fear, and there is no peace.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek future you will hear differs from Hebrew we have heard.
Verse 30:6 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:6] Ask, please, and see: Does a male give birth? Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth, and every face turned pale?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:6] Ask and see whether a male gave birth, and about fear in which they will hold loins and salvation. For I have seen every person with his hands upon his loins; faces turned toward jaundice—
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds the difficult fear, loins, and salvation clause; its syntax remains explicitly provisional rather than harmonized. It lacks Hebrew's comparison to a woman giving birth and ends with a clause whose verb continues in Greek 37:7. Jaundice renders the Greek yellowing image, not a medical diagnosis of these figures.
Verse 30:7 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:7] Alas! That day is great, with none like it. It is a time of distress for Jacob, yet he will be saved from it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:7] so it became. For that day is great, and there is none like it; it is a narrow time for Jacob, and he will be saved from it.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek's opening so it became completes the preceding yellowed-faces clause. Both promise rescue out of Jacob's distress, not an absence of distress.
Verse 30:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:8] On that day—YHWH of hosts' declaration—I will break his yoke from your neck and tear off your bonds; foreigners will no longer enslave him.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:8] On that day, said the Lord, I will smash the yoke from their neck and tear apart their bonds, and they will no longer work for foreigners.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek consistently has their and they, while Hebrew shifts among his, your, and him. Greek lacks of hosts.
Verse 30:9 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:9] They will serve YHWH their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:9] And they will work for the Lord their God, and I will raise up David their king for them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew makes both YHWH and David objects of service; Greek makes David the object of a separate raising clause. Neither column substitutes a later personal identification for David.
Verse 30:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:10] But you, do not fear, My servant Jacob—YHWH's declaration—and do not be dismayed, Israel. Look, I am saving you from far away and your offspring from their land of captivity. Jacob will return, quiet and at ease, with no one frightening him.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text here in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek 37 proceeds from label nine to twelve. Possible parallels elsewhere must be checked in their own locations; this cell does not duplicate them.
Verse 30:11 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:11] For I am with you—YHWH's declaration—to save you. Though I make an end of all the nations where I scattered you, I will not make an end of you. I will discipline you justly, but I will not leave you unpunished.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text here in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: This verse is absent at this location in the declared Greek main text; a counterpart is not supplied from memory.
Verse 30:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:12] For thus says YHWH: Your fracture is incurable; your wound is grievous.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:12] Thus said the Lord: I raised up a fracture; your wound is painful.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly has first-person I raised up rather than Hebrew incurable.
Verse 30:13 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:13] There is no one to judge your cause for a binding of the wound; you have no healing medicines.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:13] There is no one judging your case; you were treated into pain. There is no benefit for you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew mixes legal and medical language and its binding phrase is provisional. Greek's paradoxical treated into pain is retained, not changed into successful healing or the Hebrew medicines.
Verse 30:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:14] All your lovers forgot you; they do not seek you. For I struck you with an enemy's blow, a cruel discipline, because your iniquity is great and your sins numerous.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:14] All your friends forgot you; they will certainly not inquire. For I struck you with an enemy's blow, a firm discipline; upon all your injustice your sins multiplied.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek friends and firm discipline differ from Hebrew lovers and cruel discipline; Greek's final upon relation remains close to the source.
Verse 30:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:15] Why cry out over your fracture? Your pain is incurable. Because your iniquity is great and your sins numerous, I did these things to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No separately labeled Greek 37:15. Part of this wording appears inside Greek 37:16, translated in the next row.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the opening complaint question and places a related iniquity/sins/deeds clause within 37:16, with a different subject. This is an editorial alignment notice, not Scripture translation.
Verse 30:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:16] Therefore all who devour you will be devoured, and all your enemies, every one, will go into captivity. Your plunderers will become plunder, and I will give all who loot you as loot.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:16] Therefore all who eat you will be eaten; as for all your enemies, they will eat all their flesh. Upon the multitude of your injustices your sins multiplied; they did these things to you. Those plundering you will become plunder, and I will give all who despoil you as spoil.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek eating enemy flesh differs from Hebrew enemy captivity. Its inserted clause corresponds partly to Hebrew 30:15 but has they did rather than I did; the ambiguous they is not reassigned to God. Every displayed Greek clause is included once.
Verse 30:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:17] For I will bring healing to you and heal you of your wounds—YHWH's declaration—because they called you Outcast: That is Zion; no one seeks her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:17] Because I will bring up your cure and heal you from a painful wound, says the Lord, because you were called Scattered: She is your prey, because no one seeks her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek scattered and your prey differ from Hebrew outcast and Zion; the abrupt second-person plural your is retained rather than normalized.
Verse 30:18 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:18] Thus says YHWH: Look, I am restoring the fortunes of Jacob's tents and will have compassion on his dwellings. The city will be rebuilt upon its mound, and the palace will stand in its proper place.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:18] Thus said the Lord: Look, I will return Jacob's deportees and have mercy on his captivity. A city will be built upon its height, and the sanctuary will sit according to its judgment.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek captivity differs from Hebrew dwellings, and sanctuary from palace. Hebrew proper place is a contextual rendering of its customary right; Greek according to its judgment is left provisional rather than harmonized.
Verse 30:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:19] Thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers will come out from them. I will multiply them, and they will not diminish; I will honor them, and they will not be small.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:19] And singers and the sound of people playing will come out from them. I will increase them, and they will certainly not be diminished.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has singers rather than thanksgiving and lacks the final honor-and-not-small clause.
Verse 30:20 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:20] His children will be as of old, his congregation established before Me, and I will visit all his oppressors.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:20] And their sons will enter as formerly, and their testimonies will be set upright before Me. I will visit those afflicting them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek testimonies differs from Hebrew congregation, and Greek children enter rather than simply being as before.
Verse 30:21 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:21] His noble will come from him, and his ruler will come out from his midst. I will bring him near, and he will approach Me. For who is this who pledges his heart to approach Me?—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:21] And stronger ones of his will be over them, and his ruler will come out from him. I will gather them, and they will return to Me. For who is this who gave his heart to return to Me? says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek stronger ones is a difficult plural construction, retained provisionally; Greek gathers plural people who return, while Hebrew brings a singular ruler near to approach. The differing access and return imagery is not harmonized.
Verse 30:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:22] You will be My people, and I will be your God.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding text here in the declared Greek main text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek proceeds from label twenty-one to twenty-three.
Verse 30:23 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:23] Look, YHWH's storm has gone out in fury, a sweeping tempest; it whirls upon the wicked's heads.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:23] Because the Lord's anger went out furious; swirling anger went out and will come upon the ungodly.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek directly repeats anger and lacks Hebrew storm and heads.
Verse 30:24 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[30:24] YHWH's burning anger will not turn back until He has done and established His heart's purposes. In the latter days you will understand it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[37:24] The anger of the Lord's fury will certainly not turn back until He acts and establishes His heart's undertaking. At the end of the days you will know these things.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek singular undertaking and plural these things differ from Hebrew purposes and it; both delay understanding until the latter days.