Jeremiah 51 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 51:3, 51:5, 51:10, 51:11, 51:13, 51:19, 51:20, 51:32, 51:33, 51:44, 51:49, 51:58
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 51
Jeremiah 51
Hebrew source: BHS51 • chapter 51
Greek source: LXX28 • chapter 28
Verse 51:1 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:1] Thus says YHWH: I am rousing a destroying wind against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:1] Thus says the Lord: I am rousing a destroying hot wind against Babylon and against the Chaldeans who live there.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly has Chaldeans and a hot wind; Hebrew retains the name Leb-qamai. The geographical correspondence does not erase the Hebrew expression.
Verse 51:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:2] I will send strangers to Babylon; they will winnow her and empty her land, for they will be against her all around on the day of calamity.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:2] I will send insolent men to Babylon; they will abuse her and ravage her land. Woe upon Babylon all around on the day of her affliction!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek abuse/ravage and a woe replace Hebrew strangers/winnowing and the causal siege clause.
Verse 51:3 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:3] Let the archer not bend his bow, and let him not rise in his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote her whole army to destruction.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:3] Against her let the archer stretch his bow, and let the man who has armor put it on. Do not spare her young men; obliterate her whole force.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: The difficult Hebrew opening is provisionally construed negatively; Greek positively orders attack and arming. The displayed Hebrew repeats yidrk with an unpointed form and has el at the first two clauses, then al in the third. The opening construction and written/read relationship need specialist review; no apparatus was consulted.
Verse 51:4 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:4] Slain men will fall in the Chaldeans' land, and pierced men in her streets.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:4] Wounded men will fall in the Chaldeans' land, and pierced men outside her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek outside her differs from Hebrew in her streets; wounded/slain also differs.
Verse 51:5 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:5] For Israel and Judah have not been widowed of their God, of YHWH of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against Israel's Holy One.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:5] For Israel and Judah have not been widowed of their God, of the Lord Almighty, because their land was filled with injustice from Israel's holy ones.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek holy ones is plural and from marks their relation to injustice; Hebrew has the singular Holy One. Hebrew their land and the causal/concessive connection remain referentially uncertain. The columns preserve this significant theological difference without resolving it by harmonization.
Verse 51:6 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:6] Flee from Babylon's midst; each of you save your life. Do not perish in her guilt, for this is YHWH's time of vengeance; He is paying her recompense.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:6] Flee from Babylon's midst; each of you save your life. Do not be cast away in her injustice, for her time of vengeance is from the Lord; He is repaying her recompense.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The shared escape and recompense correspond, with perish/cast away and guilt/injustice differences.
Verse 51:7 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:7] Babylon was a golden cup in YHWH's hand, making the whole earth drunk. Nations drank her wine; therefore nations went mad.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:7] Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making the whole earth drunk. Nations drank her wine; therefore they were shaken.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek shaken is not rendered as the Hebrew madness.
Verse 51:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:8] Suddenly Babylon fell and was broken. Wail over her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:8] Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Lament her! Take resin for her corruption, if somehow she may be healed.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek corruption differs from Hebrew pain; resin/balm retains the respective lexical descriptions without a botanical identification.
Verse 51:9 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:9] We treated Babylon, but she was not healed. Leave her; let each of us go to our own land, for her judgment has reached heaven and risen to the clouds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:9] We treated Babylon, but she was not healed. Let us leave her; let each of us go to our own land, for her judgment reached heaven and rose to the stars.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek stars differs from Hebrew clouds; Greek uses a shared let us leave rather than the Hebrew plural command.
Verse 51:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:10] YHWH has brought forth our vindication. Come, let us recount in Zion the work of YHWH our God.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:10] The Lord has brought forth His judgment. Come, let us announce in Zion the works of the Lord our God.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek His judgment differs materially from Hebrew our righteous deeds/vindications, rendered collective vindication. Greek works is plural.
Verse 51:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:11] Polish the arrows; fill the quivers. YHWH has roused the spirit of Media's kings, for His plan against Babylon is to destroy her. This is YHWH's vengeance, vengeance for His temple.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:11] Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord roused the spirit of the Medes' king, for His anger against Babylon is to destroy her. This is the Lord's vengeance, vengeance for His people.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek has one king, anger, and people where Hebrew has kings, plan, and temple. Hebrew shlatim, otherwise associated with shields, is provisionally understood as quivers in this command; this lexical difficulty remains open.
Verse 51:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:12] Raise a banner against Babylon's walls; strengthen the guard, station watchmen, prepare the ambushes. YHWH has both planned and done what He spoke against Babylon's inhabitants,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:12] Raise a signal on Babylon's walls; set up quivers, raise guards, prepare weapons, for the Lord has undertaken and will do what He spoke against Babylon's inhabitants,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek quivers/weapons differ from Hebrew guard/ambushes; undertaken and will do differ from planned and done. Against/on permits different construals of the siege command; verse13 continues the inhabitants in Greek.
Verse 51:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:13] you who dwell beside many waters, rich in treasures: your end has come, the measure of your gain.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:13] who dwell beside many waters and her abundance of treasures. Your end has truly come to your inward parts.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek inward parts and truly differ from the difficult Hebrew ammat bitsekh, provisionally measure of your gain; cubit and cutting off are possible elements requiring lexical review. Greek plural inhabitants continues verse12; Hebrew turns to feminine singular Babylon.
Verse 51:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:14] YHWH of hosts has sworn by Himself: Surely I will fill you with people like locusts, and they will raise a shout over you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:14] For the Lord swore by His arm: I will fill you with people like locusts, and those coming down will speak out against you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek oath by His arm differs from Hebrew by Himself; Greek makes those descending the subject rather than reproducing the Hebrew shout. Greek lacks of hosts.
Verse 51:15 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:15] He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:15] He makes the earth by His strength, prepares the inhabited world by His wisdom, and stretched out heaven by His understanding.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Participial creation language corresponds; Greek explicitly describes the inhabited world.
Verse 51:16 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:16] When He gives His voice, waters roar in heaven. He raises clouds from the earth's end, makes lightning for the rain, and brings wind out of His treasuries.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:16] At His voice He set a sound of water in heaven and brought clouds up from the earth's end. He made lightning for rain and brought light out of His treasuries.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek light is retained where Hebrew has wind; the verbal constructions also differ.
Verse 51:17 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:17] Every person is brutish, without knowledge; every metalworker is ashamed of the carved image, for his cast image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:17] Every person became foolish, without knowledge; every goldsmith was disgraced by his carvings, because they cast false things, and there is no spirit in them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek goldsmith and plural casting differ from Hebrew metalworker and his cast image; breath/spirit represents the shared life-language in context.
Verse 51:18 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:18] They are vanity, works of delusion; at the time of their visitation they will perish.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:18] They are vain, mocked works; at the time of their visitation they will perish.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek mocked works differs from Hebrew works of delusion/mockery; the shared destruction at visitation is retained.
Verse 51:19 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:19] Jacob's portion is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and the tribe is His inheritance. YHWH of hosts is His name.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:19] Jacob's portion is not like this, for the One who formed all things is Himself his inheritance. The Lord is His name.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek makes the Maker Jacob's inheritance, whereas Hebrew retains the tribe as His inheritance. Hebrew has no explicit Israel name in this verse; Greek lacks of hosts.
Verse 51:20 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:20] You are My shattering weapon, My instruments of war. With you I will shatter nations; with you I will destroy kingdoms.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:20] You scatter instruments of war for Me. In you I will scatter nations, and from you I will remove kings.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek verbal you scatter differs from Hebrew you are My shattering weapon; in/from you and kings also differ from with you and kingdoms. The identity of the addressee is not supplied.
Verse 51:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:21] With you I will shatter horse and rider; with you I will shatter chariot and rider.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:21] In you I will scatter horse and rider; in you I will scatter chariots and their riders.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The with/in and shatter/scatter differences continue; Greek chariots/riders is plural in the second clause.
Verse 51:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:22] With you I will shatter man and woman; with you I will shatter old and young; with you I will shatter young man and virgin.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:22] In you I will scatter young man and virgin; in you I will scatter man and woman.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek reverses the surviving pairs and lacks Hebrew old and young.
Verse 51:23 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:23] With you I will shatter shepherd and flock; with you I will shatter farmer and team; with you I will shatter governors and deputies.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:23] In you I will scatter shepherd and flock; in you I will scatter farmer and farmland; in you I will scatter your leaders and generals.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek farmland differs from Hebrew yoked team; Greek also specifies your leaders/generals.
Verse 51:24 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:24] I will repay Babylon and all the Chaldeans' inhabitants for all the evil they did in Zion before your eyes—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:24] I will repay Babylon and all the Chaldeans who live there for all the evils they did against Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The shared recompense and witnesses correspond; Hebrew evil is collective and Greek plural.
Verse 51:25 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:25] I am against you, destroying mountain—YHWH's declaration—you who destroy the whole earth. I will stretch My hand against you, roll you down from the rocks, and make you a burned mountain.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:25] I am against you, ruined mountain that ruins the whole earth. I will stretch My hand against you, roll you down from the rocks, and make you like a burned mountain.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek first calls the mountain ruined, then ruining; Hebrew first calls it destroying. Greek lacks the internal declaration formula and adds like in the final comparison.
Verse 51:26 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:26] They will not take from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, for you will be everlasting desolations—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:26] They will certainly not take from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, for you will be a disappearance forever, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The permanent devastation corresponds; Greek uses emphatic negation and disappearance.
Verse 51:27 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:27] Raise a banner in the land; sound a horn among the nations. Consecrate nations against her; summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint an officer against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:27] Raise a signal on the earth; sound a trumpet among the nations. Consecrate nations against her; give orders against her to Ararat's kingdoms from Me and to the Ashkenazites. Set up arrow batteries against her; bring up horses against her like a multitude of locusts.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek from Me differs from the Hebrew name Minni; arrow batteries differs from Hebrew tiphsar, provisionally officer, and multitude differs from bristling. The precise ancient equipment and office remain qualified.
Verse 51:28 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:28] Consecrate nations against her: Media's kings, her governors and all her deputies, and all the land of his dominion.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:28] Consecrate nations against her: the king of the Medes and of all the earth, his leaders and all his generals.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has one king and consistently his, making all the earth part of his title. Hebrew shifts from plural kings to feminine her and masculine his; this grammatical irregularity is preserved.
Verse 51:29 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:29] The earth shakes and writhes, for YHWH's plans against Babylon stand, to make Babylon's land a desolation without an inhabitant.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:29] The earth was shaken and suffered, for the Lord's purpose rose against Babylon, to make Babylon's land a disappearance, no longer inhabited.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek singular purpose differs from Hebrew plural plans; the shared devastation corresponds.
Verse 51:30 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:30] Babylon's warriors have stopped fighting; they remain in the strongholds. Their strength has failed; they have become women. Her dwellings have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:30] Babylon's warrior has ceased fighting; they will sit there in confinement. Their power was crushed; they became like women. Her dwellings were burned; her bars were shattered.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek shifts from one warrior to plural they and has future confinement. The ancient gendered humiliation image is retained as the text's rhetoric, not endorsed as a judgment about women.
Verse 51:31 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:31] Runner runs to meet runner, and messenger to meet messenger, to tell Babylon's king that his city has been captured from end to end,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:31] Pursuer will pursue to meet pursuer, and announcer to meet announcer, to tell Babylon's king that his city has been captured;
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek pursuer/pursue differs from Hebrew runner/run. Hebrew from the end concludes this verse; Greek from the extremity opens verse32. From end to end is an idiomatic Hebrew construal, not a second word for end.
Verse 51:32 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:32] that the crossings are seized, the marshes burned with fire, and the warriors terrified.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:32] from the extremity of his crossings they were taken, and their gatherings were burned with fire, and his warriors are going out.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek gatherings, going out, and the difficult opening construction differ from Hebrew marshes and terrified. The subject of they were taken and meaning of displayed systemata remain uncertain; gatherings is deliberately broad, not a confident identification of marshes or military formations.
Verse 51:33 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:33] For thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time of treading; a little longer, and her harvest time will come.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:33] For thus says the Lord: The houses of Babylon's king will be threshed like a threshing floor ready for use; a little longer, and her harvest will come.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek houses of Babylon's king differs from Hebrew Daughter Babylon; Greek lacks of hosts, Israel's God and explicitly makes the houses the object of threshing.
Verse 51:34 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:34] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, left me an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, and rinsed me out.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:34] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon devoured me, divided me, seized me, a thin vessel. He swallowed me like a dragon, filled his belly, and drove me from my luxury.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek divided/seized/thin vessel and displacement from luxury differ from Hebrew crushed/left/empty vessel and consumed delicacies. The publisher's Hebrew suffix display combines unusual consonant/vowel forms; me follows the first-person-singular vocalized sense and surrounding speech, with the written/read issue reserved for specialist checking. Dragon names the ancient image without a zoological claim.
Verse 51:35 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:35] The violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon, says Zion's inhabitant; my blood be upon the Chaldeans' inhabitants, says Jerusalem.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:35] My toils and miseries be upon Babylon, the woman dwelling in Zion will say; my blood be upon the Chaldeans who live there, Jerusalem will say.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek toils/miseries differs from Hebrew violence/my flesh. Done to me and be are supplied for the Hebrew compact nominal imprecation.
Verse 51:36 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:36] Therefore thus says YHWH: I will plead your case and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her spring dry.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:36] Therefore thus says the Lord: I will judge your adversary and avenge you; I will lay her sea waste and dry her spring.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek judge your female adversary differs from Hebrew plead your case; the pronoun changes between Zion and Babylon remain explicit.
Verse 51:37 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:37] Babylon will become heaps, a haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:37] Babylon will become a disappearance and will not be inhabited.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the heaps, jackals, and hissing/horror images.
Verse 51:38 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:38] Together they roar like young lions; they growl like lions' cubs.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:38] Together they were roused like lions and like lions' cubs.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek roused differs from Hebrew roaring/growling.
Verse 51:39 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:39] In their heat I will set their feast and make them drunk, so that they rejoice and sleep an everlasting sleep and do not wake—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:39] In their heat I will give them a drink and make them drunk, so that they are stupefied and sleep an everlasting sleep and certainly do not rise, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek stupefied differs from Hebrew rejoice; both retain the ensuing unending sleep.
Verse 51:40 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:40] I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:40] I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter and like rams with young goats.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek young goats differs from Hebrew male goats; the shared slaughter image corresponds.
Verse 51:41 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:41] How Sheshach has been captured, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:41] How the boast of the whole earth was captured and hunted! How Babylon became a disappearance among the nations!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks Sheshach and has hunted; the Hebrew name is retained rather than silently replaced with Babylon.
Verse 51:42 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:42] The sea has risen over Babylon; she is covered by its roaring waves.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:42] The sea rose over Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she was covered.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The sea and covering image correspond with a different construction of the waves' sound.
Verse 51:43 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:43] Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and desert land, a land where no one lives and no human passes through.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:43] Her cities became a waterless and untrodden land; not one person will live there, nor will any human lodge there.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lodging differs from Hebrew passing through; untrodden/waterless corresponds broadly to dry/desert.
Verse 51:44 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:44] I will punish Bel in Babylon and take what he swallowed out of his mouth. Nations will no longer stream to him; Babylon's wall has also fallen.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:44] I will exact vengeance on Babylon and bring what she swallowed out of her mouth. Nations will certainly no longer gather to her.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek targets Babylon herself without naming Bel; feminine mouth/gathering correspond to her, not the Hebrew deity. Greek lacks the fallen-wall clause.
Verse 51:45 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:45] Come out from her midst, My people; each of you save your life from YHWH's burning anger.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding passage in the selected Greek text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew51:45–48 has no corresponding passage in the selected Greek running text, which moves from28:44 to28:49. The Hebrew material is not inserted into the Greek column.
Verse 51:46 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:46] Do not let your hearts grow faint or fear the report heard in the land. A report will come one year, then another report the next year: violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding passage in the selected Greek text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Absent in the selected Greek text. The Hebrew repeated yearly reports and ruler against ruler are retained.
Verse 51:47 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:47] Therefore days are coming when I will punish Babylon's carved images. Her whole land will be ashamed, and all her slain will fall within her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding passage in the selected Greek text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Absent in the selected Greek text.
Verse 51:48 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:48] Heaven and earth and all within them will shout for joy over Babylon, for destroyers will come against her from the north—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding passage in the selected Greek text.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Absent in the selected Greek text.
Verse 51:49 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:49] Babylon must also fall for Israel's slain, just as through Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:49] And in Babylon wounded men from all the earth will fall.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek lacks Israel and the reciprocal causal statement. The compressed Hebrew construction is provisionally expanded as Babylon's fall in return for her victims; its syntax remains open for specialist review.
Verse 51:50 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:50] You who escaped the sword, go on; do not stand still. Remember YHWH from far away, and let Jerusalem rise in your hearts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:50] You who escape from the land, go on; do not stand still. You who are far away, remember the Lord, and let Jerusalem rise in your hearts.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek land differs from Hebrew sword; Greek expressly addresses the distant people.
Verse 51:51 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:51] We are ashamed, for we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, for strangers have entered the sanctuaries of YHWH's house.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:51] We were disgraced, for we heard our reproach; dishonor covered our face. Foreigners entered our holy places, the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek our holy places followed by the Lord's house differs from Hebrew sanctuaries of YHWH's house; the sense is not harmonized into one genitive phrase.
Verse 51:52 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:52] Therefore days are coming—YHWH's declaration—when I will punish her carved images, and the wounded will groan throughout her land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:52] Therefore days are coming, says the Lord, when I will exact vengeance on her carvings, and wounded men will fall throughout her land.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek fall differs from Hebrew groan; the wounded are kept distinct from already dead persons in this context.
Verse 51:53 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:53] Though Babylon rises to heaven and fortifies the height of her strength, destroyers will come to her from Me—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:53] Even if Babylon rises as high as heaven and fortifies the height of her strength, those who destroy her will come from Me, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly compares the height with heaven; Hebrew has ascent to heaven. The shared assurance of destruction corresponds.
Verse 51:54 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:54] A sound of crying from Babylon, a great crash from the Chaldeans' land!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:54] A sound of crying in Babylon, a great shattering in the Chaldeans' land!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek in differs from Hebrew from at both locations.
Verse 51:55 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:55] For YHWH is devastating Babylon and silencing her loud voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the din of their voices resounds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:55] For the Lord destroyed Babylon and silenced her loud voice sounding like many waters; He gave her voice over to destruction.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek attaches the waters' sound to Babylon's voice and has no Hebrew their waves clause; the Hebrew plural pronouns are not silently made singular.
Verse 51:56 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:56] For a destroyer has come against her, against Babylon. Her warriors are captured; their bows are broken. YHWH is a God of recompense; He will surely repay.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:56] For misery came upon Babylon. Her warriors were captured; their bow is terrified, because God repays them; the Lord repays her recompense.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek misery and terrified bow differ from Hebrew destroyer and broken bows; Greek distinguishes them and her in the recompense clauses. The unusual personification of the bow is preserved.
Verse 51:57 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:57] I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors, deputies, and warriors. They will sleep an everlasting sleep and will not wake—the declaration of the King, whose name is YHWH of hosts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:57] He will make her leaders and wise men and generals thoroughly drunk, says the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has third-person He, a shorter officials list, and no everlasting-sleep/no-waking clause here. That clause was present in Greek28:39 and is not borrowed into this verse.
Verse 51:58 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:58] Thus says YHWH of hosts: Babylon's broad walls will be utterly razed, and her high gates burned with fire. Peoples labor for nothing; nations toil for fire and grow weary.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:58] Thus says the Lord: Babylon's wall was broadened; it will be utterly demolished, and her high gates burned. Peoples will not labor in vain, and nations will perish at the beginning.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek explicitly negates labor in vain, unlike Hebrew, and has at the beginning/perish rather than for fire/grow weary. Greek singular broadened wall also differs. The striking negative is not removed to fit the Hebrew or context.
Verse 51:59 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:59] The word Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah son of Neriah son of Mahseiah when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the officer in charge of rest.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:59] The word the Lord commanded Jeremiah the prophet to tell Seraiah son of Neriah son of Maaseiah when he went from Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was an official over gifts.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds the Lord's command to Jeremiah, has from Zedekiah rather than with, and official over gifts rather than Hebrew officer of rest, whose exact function, perhaps quartermaster, is uncertain. Mahseiah/Maaseiah retains the different names.
Verse 51:60 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:60] Jeremiah wrote in one scroll all the calamity that would come upon Babylon, all these words written against Babylon.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:60] Jeremiah wrote in one scroll all the evils that would come upon Babylon, all these words written against Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew calamity is collective; Greek evils is plural. One scroll and the written oracle correspond.
Verse 51:61 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:61] Jeremiah said to Seraiah: When you arrive in Babylon, see to it and read all these words.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:61] Jeremiah said to Seraiah: When you arrive in Babylon, you will see and read all these words,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both retain seeing before reading; see to it is an idiomatic Hebrew construal, while Greek is left more literal. No public audience is inserted.
Verse 51:62 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:62] Then say, YHWH, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that no inhabitant, human or beast, remains in it, for it will be everlasting desolations.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:62] and say, Lord, Lord, You spoke against this place to destroy it and leave no inhabitants in it, from human to livestock, for it will be a disappearance forever.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek doubles Lord and uses disappearance; the shared permanent depopulation corresponds.
Verse 51:63 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:63] When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:63] When you finish reading this scroll, bind a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The scroll, stone, river, and ordered action correspond without a substantive difference.
Verse 51:64 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[51:64] Then say, Thus Babylon will sink and not rise because of the calamity I am bringing upon her. And they will grow weary. Thus far are Jeremiah's words.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[28:64] and say, Thus Babylon will sink and certainly not rise because of the evils I am bringing upon her.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks both they will grow weary and the closing Thus far are Jeremiah's words. The Hebrew plural they in the final weariness clause is left unresolved; it is not silently deleted or attached to the scroll.