Jeremiah 49 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 49:9, 49:10, 49:11, 49:16, 49:25, 49:28
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 49
Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam
Hebrew source: BHS49 • chapter 49
Greek source: LXX30 • chapter 30
Greek source: LXX25 • chapter 25
Verse 49:1 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:1] Concerning Ammon's people, thus says YHWH: Has Israel no sons, no heir? Why has their king possessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:17] For Ammon's sons, thus said the Lord: Are there no sons in Israel, or have they no one to inherit? Why did Melchom take Gad, and will their people live in their cities?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew malkam is rendered their-king as displayed; identification with the deity Milcom is possible but not imposed. Greek explicitly has Melchom. Greek their-people/their-cities differs from the Hebrew singular possessives. Hebrew49:1–5 aligns Greek30:17–21.
Verse 49:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:2] Therefore days are coming—YHWH's declaration—when I will make the battle cry heard against Rabbah of Ammon's people. She will become a desolate mound, her daughters will be burned with fire, and Israel will possess those who possessed him, says YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:18] Therefore days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make the din of wars heard against Rabbath. They will become an untrodden place and a destruction, her altars will be burned with fire, and Israel will receive his rule.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek altars differs from Hebrew daughters, the subsidiary settlements image; rule differs from dispossessing the possessors. Greek lacks the Ammon identification and final says-YHWH and changes the ruined subject to plural they.
Verse 49:3 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:3] Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah; put on sackcloth, mourn, and wander among the enclosures. For their king will go into exile, his priests and officials together.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:19] Shout aloud, Heshbon, for Gai perished! Cry out, daughters of Rabbath; put on sackcloth, be seized with distress, and beat yourselves over Melchom, for he will go into deportation, his priests and rulers together.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek names Melchom and directs mourning over him, rather than Hebrew wandering-among-enclosures. Greek epilampteuesthe is provisionally be-seized-with-distress; the exact sense requires review, without asserting a medical diagnosis. Gai/Ai are the selected place forms.
Verse 49:4 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:4] Why do you boast in the valleys—your valley flows away—rebellious daughter, trusting in her treasures, saying, Who will come against me?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:20] Why do you exult in the plains of the Anakim, daughter of dishonor, trusting in her treasures and saying, Who will come against me?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek plains-of-Anakim differs from Hebrew valleys/your-valley-flows, a difficult clause retained provisionally. Daughter-of-dishonor differs from rebellious daughter.
Verse 49:5 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:5] I am bringing terror upon you—declares Lord YHWH of hosts—from all around you. You will be driven away, each straight ahead, and no one will gather the wanderer.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:21] I am bringing fear upon you, said the Lord, from all your surroundings. You will be scattered, each straight ahead, and there will be no one gathering.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the extended divine title and the explicit wanderer object; both shift from singular personified country to plural displaced people.
Verse 49:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:6] Afterward I will restore Ammon's people's fortunes—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding verse in the selected Greek text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek30 skips verse22, lacking this restoration promise.
Verse 49:7 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:7] Concerning Edom, thus says YHWH of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the discerning? Has their wisdom decayed?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:1] For Idumea, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman; counsel perished from the discerning; their wisdom went away.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gives assertions rather than Hebrew questions and lacks of-hosts. Hebrew mibbanim is provisionally understood as discerning people, with possible sons/descendants ambiguity requiring review. Hebrew49:7–22 aligns Greek30:1–16, earlier than Ammon in the Greek order.
Verse 49:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:8] Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, Dedan's inhabitants, for I have brought Esau's calamity upon him, the time of his punishment.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:2] Their place was deceived. Go deep to dwell, inhabitants of Dedan, for he did difficult things; I brought them upon him at the time I visited him.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks flee/turn-back and explicit Esau/calamity, adding their-place-was-deceived and he-did-difficult-things. Its I-brought has an implicit object, rendered them provisionally; the compressed subjects are not filled from Hebrew.
Verse 49:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:9] If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, they would destroy only what sufficed for them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:3] For grape gatherers came to you; they will leave you no remnants. Like thieves by night they will lay their hand upon you.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek no-remnants contrasts the Hebrew rhetorical expectation of gleanings. Greek lay-hand differs from Hebrew limited destroying; upon-you is supplied as the implicit target of the action.
Verse 49:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:10] But I have stripped Esau bare and uncovered his hiding places; he cannot hide. His offspring, brothers, and neighbors are devastated, and he is no more.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:4] For I dragged Esau away and uncovered their secrets; they certainly cannot hide. They perished by the hand of his brother and his neighbor, and it is not possible
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek makes brother/neighbor agents of destruction rather than fellow victims, lacks offspring, and shifts to plural their/they. Its final not-possible construction continues into the next source verse.
Verse 49:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:11] Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive. Let your widows trust in Me.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:5] for your orphan to remain so that he may live. And I will live, and widows have trusted in Me.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek continues the preceding negative, denying the orphan's remaining; Hebrew commands leaving orphans with God and promises to preserve them. Greek I-will-live differs from I-will-keep-alive. The sequence is not harmonized into the Hebrew assurance.
Verse 49:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:12] For thus says YHWH: Those not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it. Will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished; you will certainly drink.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:6] For thus said the Lord: Those for whom there was no law to drink the cup drank it. And you, though acquitted, certainly will not be acquitted, for you will certainly drink.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek law differs from Hebrew judgment/sentence and past drank from the Hebrew emphatic future. Greek's feminine acquitted followed by denial is retained as a difficult construction.
Verse 49:13 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:13] For I have sworn by Myself—YHWH's declaration—that Bozrah will become a horror, a reproach, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities everlasting ruins.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:7] For I swore by Myself, says the Lord, that you will become an untrodden place, a reproach, and a curse in her midst, and all her cities will be deserted forever.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks Bozrah's name, addresses you, and adds in-her-midst; its threefold description lacks a separate ruin item. No missing place name is inserted to clarify the pronouns.
Verse 49:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:14] I have heard a report from YHWH, and an envoy is sent among the nations: Gather, come against her, and rise for battle!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:8] I heard a report from the Lord, and He sent messengers to the nations: Gather and come against her; rise for war!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek plural messengers and active He-sent differ from Hebrew singular envoy/is-sent.
Verse 49:15 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:15] I have made you small among the nations, despised among humankind.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:9] I made you small among nations, easily despised among people.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both contrast the nation's self-estimation with its diminished position.
Verse 49:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:16] The terror you inspire has deceived you, the arrogance of your heart, you who live in rock clefts and occupy the hill's height. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:10] Your playfulness assailed you; your heart's insolence destroyed holes in rocks and seized the strength of a high hill. For he raised his nest like an eagle; from there I will bring you down.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek has a very different and difficult sequence: playfulness/assailing and insolence destroying/seizing, against Hebrew terror/deception and dwelling/holding. Greek's he/his then you shift is retained. Exact force of enecheiresen and the destruction clause remains provisional; Greek lacks the final declaration formula.
Verse 49:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:17] Edom will become a horror; everyone passing by her will be appalled and hiss at all her wounds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:11] Idumea will become an untrodden place; everyone passing by her will hiss.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks being-appalled and at-all-her-wounds, and has untrodden-place against horror/desolation.
Verse 49:18 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:18] As when Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors were overthrown, says YHWH, no one will live there; no human being will reside in her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:12] As Sodom, Gomorrah, and her neighboring places were overturned, said the Lord Almighty, no person will settle there, and no human being will live there.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds Almighty and has singular her for the neighbors, against Hebrew plural their.
Verse 49:19 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:19] Like a lion he will come up from Jordan's thickets against a lasting pasture. In a moment I will drive him away from her; whoever is chosen I will appoint over her. For who is like Me? Who will summon Me, and what shepherd can stand before Me?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:13] Like a lion he will come up from Jordan's midst into Aitham's place, for I will quickly drive them away from her. Appoint the young men over her. For who is like Me? Who will resist Me, and what shepherd can stand before Me?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek Aitham's-place differs from Hebrew lasting-pasture, and plural them/appoint-you-young-men differs from Hebrew him/I-appoint-chosen. Hebrew's initial lion/pasture/expulsion relations are difficult and provisionally retained. Greek resist differs from Hebrew legal summon.
Verse 49:20 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:20] Therefore hear YHWH's counsel that He has planned against Edom and His purposes against Teman's inhabitants: Surely the little ones of the flock will drag them away; surely He will make their pasture desolate over them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:14] Therefore hear the Lord's counsel that He planned against Idumea and His purpose against Teman's inhabitants: Surely the smallest sheep will be swept together; surely their dwelling will be made untrodden over her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's little-flock subject dragging-them is retained provisionally, with the alternative of the small flock as affected object requiring review. Greek has a passive smallest-sheep/swept-together and a separate passive dwelling clause. The difficult images are not converted into an explicit military explanation.
Verse 49:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:21] At the sound of their fall the earth quakes; the sound of her cry is heard at the Sea of Reeds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:15] For at the sound of their fall the earth shook, and your cry was heard at the sea.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek your-cry differs from Hebrew her-cry and lacks the Sea-of-Reeds designation.
Verse 49:22 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:22] Like an eagle he will rise and swoop, spreading his wings over Bozrah. That day Edom's warriors' hearts will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:16] Like an eagle he will look and stretch his wings over her fortifications. That day Idumea's strong men's hearts will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek look differs from Hebrew rise/swoop and fortifications from named Bozrah. The labor image corresponds.
Verse 49:23 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:23] Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard an evil report; they melt away. There is anxiety on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:29] For Damascus: Hamath and Arpad were ashamed because they heard an evil report. They were distraught and angry; they certainly cannot rest.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the sea and gives plural human distress/anger instead. Hebrew's sea-anxiety clause is retained as difficult rather than emended to suit an inland setting. Hebrew49:23–27 aligns Greek30:29–33, after Kedar in Greek.
Verse 49:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:24] Damascus has grown feeble and turned to flee; trembling grips her. Anguish and pains seize her like a woman giving birth.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:30] Damascus grew feeble and turned to flight; trembling seized her.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the entire anguish/laboring-woman comparison.
Verse 49:25 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:25] How has the city of praise not been abandoned, the town of my joy?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:31] How did he not abandon My city? They loved a village.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek My-city and they-loved-a-village differ sharply from Hebrew praise/my-joy. Greek he is unnamed; capitalization of My follows the divine-speech setting but the abrupt speaker reference remains uncertain. Neither column deletes its difficult negative.
Verse 49:26 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:26] Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all the fighting men will be silenced that day—declares YHWH of hosts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:32] Therefore young men will fall in your squares, and all your warriors will fall, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek your differs from Hebrew her and repeats fall against be-silenced; it lacks that-day and of-hosts.
Verse 49:27 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:27] I will kindle fire in Damascus's wall, and it will devour Ben-hadad's palaces.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:33] I will kindle fire in Damascus's wall, and it will devour the quarters of Ader's son.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek quarters/son-of-Ader differs from Hebrew palaces/Ben-hadad. The name is preserved as displayed rather than silently rebuilt from Hebrew.
Verse 49:28 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:28] Concerning Kedar and Hazor's kingdoms, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck, thus says YHWH: Rise, go up against Kedar, and devastate the eastern people!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:23] For Kedar, queen of the courtyard, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus said the Lord: Rise and go up against Kedar, and fill the sons of Kedem!
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek queen-of-the-courtyard differs from Hebrew kingdoms-of-Hazor. The selected Greek plesate is retained as fill, with its object sons-of-Kedem and exact intended force unresolved; it is not silently replaced with Hebrew devastate. Hebrew49:28–33 aligns Greek30:23–28.
Verse 49:29 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:29] They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains, all their equipment, and camels for themselves, and cry out against them, Terror on every side!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:24] They will take their tents and sheep, their garments, all their equipment, and camels for themselves. Call destruction against them on every side!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek garments differs from Hebrew tent-curtains, command call from they-will-call, and destruction from terror.
Verse 49:30 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:30] Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, Hazor's inhabitants—YHWH's declaration—for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has planned counsel against you and devised a purpose against them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:25] Flee far away; go deep to dwell, you who stay in the courtyard, for Babylon's king planned counsel against you and devised a purpose against you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek courtyard replaces Hazor, lacks the declaration formula and Nebuchadnezzar's name, and keeps you against Hebrew final them.
Verse 49:31 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:31] Rise, go up against a nation at ease, living securely—YHWH's declaration—with neither doors nor bar; they dwell alone.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:26] Rise and go up against a stable nation living in refreshment, with neither doors nor pins nor bars; they lodge alone.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek refreshment differs from Hebrew security and adds locking pins. Greek lacks the declaration formula; its initial commands are singular against Hebrew plural.
Verse 49:32 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:32] Their camels will become plunder and their numerous livestock spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who clip their hair at the edges, and from all sides I will bring their calamity—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:27] Their camels will become plunder and their numerous livestock destruction. I will winnow them to every wind, those shorn before their faces; from every side of them I will bring their rout, said the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek destruction differs from Hebrew spoil; shorn-before-their-faces differs from Hebrew clipped-edge description. Both retain an ancient grooming designation without assigning a modern ethnic identity.
Verse 49:33 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:33] Hazor will become a home for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will live there; no human being will reside in her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[30:28] The courtyard will become an abode for ostriches, untrodden forever. No person will settle there; no human being will live there.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek courtyard/ostriches differs from Hebrew Hazor/jackals. Strouthoi can denote birds broadly; ostriches is provisional in the wilderness-abode setting and is not a zoological certainty.
Verse 49:34 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:34] YHWH's word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of Zedekiah king of Judah's reign:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:14;25:20] What Jeremiah prophesied concerning the nations, Elam. At the beginning of King Zedekiah's reign, this word came concerning Elam.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: This cell aligns Greek25:14 and25:20, the opening and closing headings of its Elam oracle; intervening25:15–19 aligns Hebrew49:35–39. Greek's closing chronological heading is placed here for comparison and not duplicated below. Greek lacks the-prophet and king-of-Judah.
Verse 49:35 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:35] Thus says YHWH of hosts: I am breaking Elam's bow, the chief of their strength.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:15] Thus says the Lord: Let Elam's bow be shattered, the beginning of their dominion.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek passive command let-be-shattered differs from Hebrew I-am-breaking, and dominion from strength. Greek lacks of-hosts.
Verse 49:36 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:36] I will bring upon Elam four winds from heaven's four ends and scatter them to all these winds. There will be no nation where Elam's outcasts do not come.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:16] I will bring upon Elam four winds from heaven's four ends and scatter them among all these winds. There will be no nation where Elam's outcasts do not come.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve four winds and universal dispersion. Hebrew's displayed final Elam spelling is not treated as a consulted apparatus variant.
Verse 49:37 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:37] I will terrify Elam before their enemies and those seeking their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, My burning anger—YHWH's declaration—and send the sword after them until I have consumed them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:17] I will terrify them before their enemies who seek their lives and bring calamities upon them according to the anger of My wrath. I will send My sword after them until they are consumed.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek pronoun them replaces Elam and gives My-sword against Hebrew the-sword; it lacks the declaration formula and describes the enemies as life-seekers rather than a separately coordinated group.
Verse 49:38 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:38] I will set My throne in Elam and destroy king and officials from there—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:18] I will set My throne in Elam and send king and nobles away from there.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek send-away differs from Hebrew destroy and lacks the declaration formula.
Verse 49:39 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[49:39] In the latter days I will restore Elam's fortunes—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[25:19] In the last days I will turn back Elam's captivity, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both preserve the restoration assurance. Greek's subsequent chronological heading25:20 is already translated and explicitly aligned at49:34; no Greek source unit is omitted or repeated.