Jeremiah 42 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 42:12
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Chapter 42
The remnant asks for guidance and is warned against Egypt
Hebrew source: BHS42 • chapter 42
Greek source: LXX49 • chapter 49
Verse 42:1 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:1] All the army commanders, Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:1] All the commanders of the force, Johanan, Azariah son of Maaseiah, and all the people, from the least to the greatest, approached
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek Azariah son of Maaseiah differs from Hebrew Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah; Johanan's patronymic is absent in Greek. The Greek sentence continues into the following verse.
Verse 42:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:2] They said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our plea come before you. Pray for us to YHWH your God, for this whole remnant, for few of us remain out of many, as your eyes see us.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:2] Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, Please let our appeal for mercy come before you. Pray to the Lord your God for these survivors, for few of us remain out of many, as your eyes see.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek eleos, literally mercy, is rendered appeal-for-mercy in this petition idiom, provisionally; it lacks Hebrew's separate for-us, whole, and final us.
Verse 42:3 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:3] Let YHWH your God tell us the way we should go and what we should do.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:3] Let the Lord your God tell us the way we should go and the matter we should carry out.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both ask for direction and action; word/matter is rendered in its practical instruction sense.
Verse 42:4 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:4] Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard. I will pray to YHWH your God as you have said. I will tell you every word YHWH answers you; I will withhold nothing from you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:4] Jeremiah said to them, I have heard. I will pray to the Lord our God as you have said. Whatever word the Lord answers, I will tell you; I certainly will not hide a word from you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek our-God differs from Hebrew your-God; Greek also lacks the-prophet and the explicit answer recipient you.
Verse 42:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:5] They said to Jeremiah, May YHWH be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to every word with which YHWH your God sends you to us.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:5] They said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a righteous and faithful witness among us if we do not act according to every word with which the Lord sends you to us.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek righteous differs from Hebrew true, and among-us is retained against Hebrew's oath-context against-us. Greek lacks your-God.
Verse 42:6 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:6] Whether good or bad, we will obey the voice of YHWH our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we obey the voice of YHWH our God.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:6] Whether good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may be better for us, because we will obey the voice of the Lord our God.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both promise obedience regardless of the message's welcome; Greek uses comparative better and an explicit causal because.
Verse 42:7 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:7] At the end of ten days, YHWH's word came to Jeremiah.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:7] After ten days, the Lord's word came to Jeremiah.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The same waiting period is retained.
Verse 42:8 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:8] He called Johanan son of Kareah, all the army commanders with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:8] He called Johanan, the commanders of the force, and all the people, from the least to the greatest.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the patronymic, all before commanders, and with-him.
Verse 42:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:9] He said to them, Thus says YHWH, Israel's God, to whom you sent me to lay your plea before Him:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:9] He said to them, Thus said the Lord:
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Israel's-God and the full reminder of their request for intercession.
Verse 42:10 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:10] If you remain in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you. For I have relented concerning the disaster I brought upon you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:10] If you remain in this land, I will build you up and certainly not tear you down; I will plant you and certainly not pluck you up. For I have rested from the calamities I brought upon you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek rested differs from Hebrew relented. Neither is silently expanded into a doctrinal explanation of divine change; Hebrew's unusual initial form is interpreted within the emphatic staying construction, not presented as an apparatus reconstruction.
Verse 42:11 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:11] Do not fear Babylon's king, whom you fear. Do not fear him—YHWH's declaration—for I am with you to save you and rescue you from his hand.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:11] Do not fear Babylon's king, whom you fear. Do not fear, says the Lord, for I am with you to rescue you and save you from his hand.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The rescue/save verbs are reversed in order; both ground the assurance in divine presence.
Verse 42:12 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:12] I will grant you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and return you to your own soil.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:12] I will grant you mercy, have mercy on you, and return you to your land.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew shifts to a third-person he, contextually the king, for compassion and return; Greek keeps God as the first-person agent throughout. No agents are harmonized.
Verse 42:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:13] But if you say, We will not remain in this land, refusing to obey the voice of YHWH your God,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:13] But if you say, We certainly will not remain in this land, so as not to obey the Lord's voice,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks your-God. The conditional sentence continues in the following verses.
Verse 42:14 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:14] saying, No, we will enter Egypt's land, where we will not see war, hear the trumpet's sound, or hunger for bread; there we will live—
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:14] because we will enter Egypt's land, certainly not see war or hear the trumpet's sound or hunger for bread, and there we will live—
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek does not preserve the initial direct no but gives the people's asserted reason with because; emphatic negatives are retained.
Verse 42:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:15] now therefore hear YHWH's word, remnant of Judah. Thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: If you are determined to enter Egypt and go to reside there,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:15] therefore hear the Lord's word. Thus said the Lord: If you set your faces toward Egypt and go in to live there,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks now, remnant-of-Judah, of-hosts, and Israel's-God. Hebrew's emphatic setting of faces is rendered determined.
Verse 42:16 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:16] the sword you fear will overtake you there in Egypt's land, and the famine you dread will cling after you there in Egypt, and there you will die.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:16] the sword you fear will find you in Egypt's land, and the famine you are concerned about will catch up with you from behind in Egypt, and there you will die.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek find/catch-up differs from Hebrew overtake/cling-after. Have-concern renders Greek logon-echete contextually without adding a separate famine report.
Verse 42:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:17] All the people determined to enter Egypt and reside there will die by sword, famine, and pestilence. They will have no survivor or fugitive from the disaster I am bringing upon them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:17] All the people and all the foreigners who set their faces toward Egypt's land to live there will perish by sword and famine. None of them will be saved from the calamities I am bringing upon them.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds all-the-foreigners, lacks pestilence, and has one none-saved clause against the Hebrew survivor/fugitive pair.
Verse 42:18 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:18] For thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: As My anger and wrath were poured upon Jerusalem's inhabitants, so My wrath will be poured upon you when you enter Egypt. You will become an imprecation, a horror, a curse, and a reproach, and you will never see this place again.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:18] For thus said the Lord: As My wrath dripped upon Jerusalem's inhabitants, so My wrath will drip upon you when you enter Egypt. You will become an untrodden place, subject to others, a curse, and a reproach, and you certainly will never see this place again.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek drip/stazo differs from Hebrew poured, and its untrodden-place/subject-to-others differs from the Hebrew initial imprecation/horror. Greek lacks of-hosts, Israel's-God, and the first anger alongside wrath. The unusual description of people as an untrodden place is retained.
Verse 42:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:19] YHWH has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah: Do not enter Egypt. Know for certain that I have warned you today.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:19] These are the things the Lord spoke concerning you, Judah's survivors: Do not enter Egypt. And now know for certain
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek's certainty formula continues into the next verse; it lacks Hebrew's explicit I-have-warned-you-today. The demonstrative English opening renders Greek ha, connecting the preceding declaration.
Verse 42:20 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:20] that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to YHWH your God, saying, Pray for us to YHWH our God; tell us everything YHWH our God says, and we will do it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:20] that you acted wickedly in your souls when you sent me, saying, Pray for us to the Lord, and we will do everything the Lord tells you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's self-involving straying/deception is rendered gone-astray-at-the-cost-of-your-lives, provisionally; Greek explicitly says acted-wickedly. Greek lacks the repeated divine possessive titles and tell-us clause.
Verse 42:21 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:21] I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of YHWH your God or anything He sent me to tell you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:21] And you did not obey the Lord's voice, with which He sent me to you.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the opening I-told-you-today, your-God, and the separate everything clause. English with-which supplies the relational sense of the compressed Greek relative construction.
Verse 42:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[42:22] Now know for certain that you will die by sword, famine, and pestilence in the place where you desire to go and reside.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[49:22] And now you will perish by sword and famine in the place where you want to go and live.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks know-for-certain and pestilence; both identify the desired refuge as the place of death.