Jeremiah 50 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 50:7, 50:8, 50:16, 50:27, 50:34, 50:38, 50:39, 50:42
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 50
Babylon judged; Israel and Judah seek their God
Hebrew source: BHS50 • chapter 50
Greek source: LXX27 • chapter 27
Verse 50:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:1] The word YHWH spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the Chaldeans' land, through Jeremiah the prophet:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:1] The Lord's word that He spoke against Babylon:
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the Chaldeans' land and Jeremiah/the-prophet. Hebrew50 aligns Greek27 verse for verse, within the differently placed nations collection.
Verse 50:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:2] Declare among the nations and proclaim; raise a banner, proclaim, do not conceal it. Say, Babylon is captured! Bel is disgraced; Merodach is shattered. Her images are disgraced; her idols are shattered.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:2] Announce among the nations and make it heard; do not hide it. Say, Babylon has been captured! Bel was disgraced, the fearless one; the delicate one was handed over, Marodach.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks the banner and final general idol clauses, adding the feminine descriptors fearless/delicate around the deity names. Their grammatical attachment is difficult; this close punctuation is provisional and does not claim the deities' gender or identify an underlying Hebrew variant.
Verse 50:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:3] A nation has come up against her from the north; it will make her land a desolation, with no inhabitant in it. Human and beast alike have wandered away and gone.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:3] A nation came up against her from the north; it will make her land a disappearance, with no one living in it, from human to livestock.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the final wandering/going clause and places human-to-livestock with the absence of inhabitants.
Verse 50:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:4] In those days and at that time—YHWH's declaration—Israel's people and Judah's people will come together, going and weeping as they go, seeking YHWH their God.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:4] In those days and at that time, Israel's sons and Judah's sons will come together; walking and weeping, they will go seeking the Lord their God.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the internal declaration formula; the shared return and search correspond.
Verse 50:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:5] They will ask the way to Zion, their faces turned here: Come, and join yourselves to YHWH in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:5] They will ask the way as far as Zion, for they will turn their faces here. They will come and take refuge with the Lord God, for an everlasting covenant will not be forgotten.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek future come/take-refuge differs from Hebrew imperative come/join; Greek adds God and for. Hebrew's transition between invitation and joining is provisionally rendered as connected commands.
Verse 50:6 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:6] My people were lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. They went from mountain to hill and forgot their resting place.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:6] My people became lost sheep; their shepherds thrust them away and led them astray upon the mountains. They went from mountain to hill and forgot their resting place.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly has the additional thrusting-away action; both retain the shepherd/straying metaphor.
Verse 50:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:7] All who found them devoured them. Their foes said, We incur no guilt, because they sinned against YHWH, the pasture of righteousness, YHWH, their fathers' hope.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:7] All who found them consumed them. Their enemies said, Let us not release them, because they sinned against the Lord, the pasture of righteousness, who gathered their fathers.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek let-us-not-release contrasts Hebrew we-incur-no-guilt, and who-gathered-the-fathers contrasts their-fathers'-hope/YHWH. The enemies' justification remains reported speech, not the narrator's endorsement.
Verse 50:8 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:8] Flee from Babylon's midst; let them come out of the Chaldeans' land. Be like male goats at the head of the flock.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:8] Separate yourselves from Babylon's midst and the Chaldeans' land; come out and become like dragons before sheep.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek dragons differs sharply from Hebrew male goats. Hebrew's displayed third-person come-out form is retained here, while the surrounding commands address the exiles; no marginal reading is claimed.
Verse 50:9 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:9] I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north. They will line up against her; from there she will be captured. His arrows are like a skillful warrior who does not return empty.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:9] I am rousing assemblies of nations against Babylon from the north. They will deploy against her; from there she will be captured. Like a discerning warrior's missile, it will not return empty.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has plural assemblies and lacks great/bringing-up. The final Greek singular missile construction differs from Hebrew his-arrows/warrior; the reference of it remains compressed.
Verse 50:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:10] Chaldea will become spoil; all who plunder her will be satisfied—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:10] Chaldea will become plunder; all who plunder her will be filled.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the declaration formula.
Verse 50:11 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:11] Because you rejoice and exult, plunderers of My inheritance, because you frisk like a threshing heifer and neigh like stallions,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:11] because you rejoiced and boasted while plundering My inheritance, because you leaped like little cattle in pasture and butted like bulls,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek cattle-in-pasture/butting-bulls differs from Hebrew threshing-heifer/neighing-stallions. The displayed Hebrew forms are translated contextually without claiming a full written/read apparatus comparison.
Verse 50:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:12] your mother is deeply ashamed; she who bore you is disgraced. Look, the last of nations—a wilderness, dry land, and desert!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:12] your mother was deeply ashamed—a mother for good things, last of nations, a wilderness.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek's mother-for-good-things is difficult and retained closely; it lacks the explicit birth/disgrace clause and the last two desert terms. No conventional Hebrew equivalent is substituted.
Verse 50:13 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:13] Because of YHWH's wrath she will not be inhabited; she will be entirely desolate. Everyone passing Babylon will be appalled and hiss at all her wounds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:13] Because of the Lord's anger she will not be inhabited and will entirely disappear. Everyone passing through Babylon will look gloomy, and they will hiss at every wound of hers.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek gloomy differs from Hebrew appalled and shifts from everyone to plural they; disappearance retains the Greek destruction term.
Verse 50:14 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:14] Line up against Babylon all around, all who bend the bow. Shoot at her; spare no arrow, for she has sinned against YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:14] Deploy against Babylon all around, all who stretch the bow. Shoot at her; do not spare your arrows.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the final because-she-sinned-against-YHWH clause.
Verse 50:15 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:15] Raise the battle cry against her all around! She has given her hand; her supports have fallen, her walls are torn down. For this is YHWH's vengeance; take vengeance upon her. Do to her as she has done.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:15] Clap against her! Her hands were disabled, her battlements fell, and her wall was demolished. For this is vengeance from God; take vengeance upon her. Do to her as she did.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek disabled-hands contrasts Hebrew given-hand, an apparent surrender gesture; battlements differs from the difficult Hebrew supports term. Greek lacks all-around and names God rather than YHWH in the vengeance clause.
Verse 50:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:16] Cut off the sower from Babylon and the one handling the sickle at harvest. Before the oppressing sword, each will turn to his people and flee to his land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:16] Destroy seed from Babylon, the one holding a sickle at harvest. Before the Greek sword, each will return to his people and flee to his land.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek seed rather than sower leaves an awkward shift to a person holding the sickle; Greek Hellenic sword differs from Hebrew oppressing sword, as at46:16. No historical identification is imposed.
Verse 50:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:17] Israel is a scattered sheep driven away by lions. First Assyria's king devoured him; last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon broke his bones.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:17] Israel is a wandering sheep driven away by lions. First Assyria's king ate him; later this one, Babylon's king, ate his bones.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks Nebuchadnezzar's name and carries forward ate as the implied verb for bones rather than using Hebrew bone-breaking. The lions image is retained.
Verse 50:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:18] Therefore thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: I am punishing Babylon's king and his land as I punished Assyria's king.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:18] Therefore thus says the Lord: I am taking vengeance upon Babylon's king and his land, as I took vengeance upon Assyria's king.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks of-hosts/Israel's-God and uses vengeance against Hebrew punitive visitation.
Verse 50:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:19] I will restore Israel to his pasture. He will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his appetite will be satisfied on Ephraim's hills and Gilead.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:19] I will restore Israel to his pasture. He will graze on Carmel, on Ephraim's mountain, and in Gilead, and his soul will be filled.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Bashan. Hebrew nephesh is rendered appetite in the pasture/satisfaction context; Greek psyche remains soul, without asserting a separate body/soul anthropology from this lexical contrast.
Verse 50:20 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:20] In those days and at that time—YHWH's declaration—Israel's guilt will be sought but will not exist, and Judah's sins will not be found, for I will forgive those I leave remaining.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:20] In those days and at that time they will seek Israel's injustice, and it will not exist, and Judah's sins, and they certainly will not be found, for I will be merciful to those left upon the land, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds upon-the-land, uses be-merciful against forgive, and places the declaration at the end rather than after the time formula.
Verse 50:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:21] Go up against Merathaim's land and against Pekod's inhabitants. Lay waste and devote them to destruction—YHWH's declaration—and do everything I commanded you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:21] Go fiercely against her and her inhabitants. Take vengeance, sword, and make her disappear, says the Lord; do everything I command you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek translates or replaces the Hebrew place-word sequence as fiercely/vengeance and explicitly addresses the sword. Merathaim/Pekod are retained as Hebrew names with possible wordplay, not reconstructed Greek place names.
Verse 50:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:22] The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:22] A sound of war and great shattering in the Chaldeans' land!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek explicitly adds Chaldeans.
Verse 50:23 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:23] How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among nations!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:23] How the hammer of the whole earth was snapped and shattered! How Babylon became a disappearance among nations!
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The hammer image corresponds; the destruction descriptors retain each column's vocabulary.
Verse 50:24 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:24] I laid a snare for you, and you were captured, Babylon, without knowing it. You were found and seized because you challenged YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:24] They will attack you and you will be captured, Babylon, without knowing it. You were found and taken because you resisted the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek they-will-attack differs from Hebrew I-laid-a-snare; the tense and agency changes are retained.
Verse 50:25 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:25] YHWH opened His storehouse and brought out the weapons of His indignation, for Lord YHWH of hosts has work to do in the Chaldeans' land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:25] The Lord opened His treasury and brought out the instruments of His anger, for the Lord God has work in the Chaldeans' land,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek Lord-God differs from the Hebrew extended title; the Greek cause continues in the next verse.
Verse 50:26 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:26] Come against her from the far end; open her granaries. Heap her up like piles and devote her to destruction; let no remnant remain for her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:26] for her times have arrived. Open her storehouses; search her like a cave and destroy her. Let no remnant of her remain.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek her-times-have-arrived differs from Hebrew come-from-the-end; search-like-a-cave differs from heap-like-piles. Hebrew granaries is provisional for the rare storage term.
Verse 50:27 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:27] Slay all her bulls; let them go down to slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:27] Dry up all her fruits, and let them go down to slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their vengeance.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek fruits/dry-up differs from Hebrew bulls/slay, retaining an awkward transition from produce to slaughter. Greek vengeance differs from Hebrew visitation/punishment.
Verse 50:28 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:28] A sound of fugitives and escapees from Babylon's land, announcing in Zion the vengeance of YHWH our God, vengeance for His temple!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:28] A sound of those fleeing and being rescued from Babylon's land, announcing in Zion vengeance from the Lord our God!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the explicit vengeance-for-His-temple clause.
Verse 50:29 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:29] Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around; let there be no escape. Repay her according to her work; do to her all she has done, for she acted arrogantly against YHWH, against Israel's Holy One.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:29] Give orders against Babylon to many, to everyone drawing a bow. Encamp against her all around; let none of her people escape. Repay her according to her works; do to her all she did, for she resisted the Lord, Israel's holy God.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek many differs from Hebrew contextual archers, resisted from acted-arrogantly, and holy-God adds the explicit God noun. No independently verified qere is claimed for the Hebrew escape clause.
Verse 50:30 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:30] Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her fighting men will be silenced that day—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:30] Therefore her young men will fall in her squares, and all her warriors will be thrown down, said the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek thrown-down differs from silenced and lacks that-day.
Verse 50:31 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:31] I am against you, Arrogance—declares Lord YHWH of hosts—for your day has come, the time of your punishment.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:31] I am against you, insolent woman, says the Lord, for your day has come, the time of your vengeance.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly uses feminine insolent-one against Hebrew personified Arrogance and lacks the extended divine title.
Verse 50:32 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:32] Arrogance will stumble and fall, with no one to raise him. I will kindle fire in his cities, and it will devour all around him.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:32] Your insolence will grow weak and fall, with no one to raise it. I will kindle fire in her forest, and it will devour everything around her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek forest differs from Hebrew cities, grow-weak from stumble, and possessive/gender patterns differ. No city meaning is silently assigned to the Greek forest noun.
Verse 50:33 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:33] Thus says YHWH of hosts: Israel's people and Judah's people are oppressed together. All their captors hold them fast and refuse to release them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:33] Thus says the Lord: Israel's sons and Judah's sons have been oppressed together. All who captured them oppressed them, because they did not want to release them.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks of-hosts and repeats oppressed where Hebrew has held-fast; because introduces the captors' refusal.
Verse 50:34 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:34] Their Redeemer is strong; YHWH of hosts is His name. He will surely plead their case, to give the land rest and disturb Babylon's inhabitants.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:34] The One redeeming them is strong; the Lord Almighty is His name. He will judge a case against His adversaries, to remove the land, and He will provoke Babylon's inhabitants.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek His-adversaries differs from Hebrew their-case, and remove-the-land differs from give-the-land-rest. The force of Greek exare is unresolved; remove/lift is kept provisional rather than harmonized to Hebrew peace. Greek pantokrator is rendered Almighty.
Verse 50:35 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:35] A sword against the Chaldeans—YHWH's declaration—against Babylon's inhabitants, her officials, and her wise men!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:35] A sword against the Chaldeans, Babylon's inhabitants, her nobles, and her discerning men!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the internal declaration formula.
Verse 50:36 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:36] A sword against the boastful diviners, and they will become fools! A sword against her warriors, and they will be dismayed!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:36] A sword against her warriors, and they will be disabled!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the first diviners/fools clause. Hebrew baddim is provisionally boastful diviners; a broader deceivers sense is possible.
Verse 50:37 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:37] A sword against his horses, his chariots, and all the mixed people within her, and they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:37] A sword against their horses and chariots! A sword against their warriors and the mixed people within her, and they will become like women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be scattered!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds a separate warriors threat, uses their against Hebrew his, and scattered against plundered. The ancient gendered military humiliation is retained as source rhetoric, not an assertion about women's abilities.
Verse 50:38 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:38] Drought against her waters, and they will dry up! For she is a land of carved images, and they act madly over their terrifying idols.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:38] She trusted in her water, and they will be ashamed, for it is a land of carved images, and in the islands where they boasted.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek trusted-water/ashamed and islands-boasting differs sharply from Hebrew drought/dryness and terrifying-idol frenzy. The Greek final locative fragment is retained without inventing a completing verb.
Verse 50:39 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:39] Therefore desert creatures will live with howling creatures, and ostriches will live in her. She will never again be inhabited, nor settled from generation to generation.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:39] Therefore apparitions will live on the islands, and daughters of sirens will live in her. She certainly will never again be inhabited.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek apparitions/islands/daughters-of-sirens differs from the Hebrew wild-creature list and lacks the final generational clause. Hebrew zoological labels are deliberately general where species are uncertain; Greek mythic imagery is not silently converted into animals.
Verse 50:40 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:40] As God overthrew Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors—YHWH's declaration—no one will live there; no human being will reside in her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:40] As God overturned Sodom, Gomorrah, and their bordering places, said the Lord, no person will live there, and no human being will reside there.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both apply the Sodom/Gomorrah comparison to Babylon's desolation.
Verse 50:41 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:41] A people is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred from the earth's farthest parts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:41] A people is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings will be roused from the earth's farthest part,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek singular farthest-part corresponds to Hebrew plural extremities; the Greek sentence continues.
Verse 50:42 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:42] They grasp bow and javelin; they are cruel and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea. They ride horses, arrayed like a man for battle against you, daughter Babylon.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:42] holding bow and dagger. It is insolent and certainly will not show mercy. Their voice will sound like the sea. They will ride horses, prepared like fire for war against you, daughter Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek like-fire differs from Hebrew like-a-man; dagger differs from javelin. Greek singular collective it shifts to plural their/they, retained without inventing a named army.
Verse 50:43 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:43] Babylon's king has heard the report about them, and his hands hang limp. Anguish grips him, pain like a woman giving birth.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:43] Babylon's king heard the report about them, and his hands were disabled. Distress seized him, birth pains like a woman giving birth.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The report, physical collapse, and birth-pain image correspond.
Verse 50:44 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:44] Like a lion he will come up from Jordan's thickets against a lasting pasture. In a moment I will drive them 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
[27:44] Like a lion he will come up from the Jordan into Aitham's place, for I will quickly drive them away from her and appoint every young man over her. For who is like Me? Who will resist Me, and what shepherd can stand before Me?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: As at49:19, Greek Aitham differs from Hebrew lasting-pasture, young-man from chosen-one, and resist from summon. Here Greek itself has I-will-appoint, unlike its imperative at30:13; the local distinction is retained.
Verse 50:45 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:45] Therefore hear YHWH's counsel that He planned against Babylon and His purposes against the Chaldeans' land: Surely the little ones of the flock will drag them away; surely He will make a pasture desolate over them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:45] Therefore hear the Lord's counsel that He has planned against Babylon and His purposes against the resident Chaldeans: Surely the lambs of their sheep will be destroyed; surely pasture will disappear from them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek passive destroyed-lambs differs from the difficult Hebrew little-flock-dragging construction, as at49:20, and residents differs from land. The agent/object uncertainty in Hebrew is retained, not settled by importing the Greek passive.
Verse 50:46 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[50:46] At the sound of Babylon's capture the earth quakes, and a cry is heard among the nations.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[27:46] For at the sound of Babylon's capture the earth will shake, and a cry will be heard among the nations.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The international shock at Babylon's capture closes both chapters.