Jeremiah 14 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 14:15
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 14
Jeremiah 14
Hebrew source: BHS14 • chapter 14
Greek source: LXX14 • chapter 14
Verse 14:1 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:1] YHWH's word came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts:
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:1] And the Lord's word came to Jeremiah concerning the lack of rain:
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both introduce the drought address.
Verse 14:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:2] Judah mourns and her gates languish; they darken to the ground, and Jerusalem's cry rises.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:2] Judea mourned, and her gates were emptied and darkened upon the earth, and Jerusalem's cry rose.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek emptied differs from Hebrew languishing. The gates stand within the communal mourning image without an inserted list of people.
Verse 14:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:3] Their nobles send their young ones for water; they come to cisterns and find no water. They return with empty vessels, ashamed and humiliated, and cover their heads.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:3] Her magnates sent their younger ones for water; they came to wells and found no water and brought back their vessels empty.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the shame and head-covering clauses here; the next verse retains the farmers' shame.
Verse 14:4 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:4] Because the ground is shattered, because there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed and cover their heads.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:4] And the land's works failed because there was no rain; the farmers were ashamed and covered their heads.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek land's works, contextually agricultural production, differs from the Hebrew distressed or cracked ground.
Verse 14:5 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:5] Even a doe in the field gives birth and abandons her young, because there is no grass.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:5] And deer in the field gave birth and abandoned their young, because there was no pasture.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The object young is supplied from the birth context in both; Hebrew is singular and Greek plural.
Verse 14:6 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:6] Wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, panting for wind like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no grass.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:6] Wild donkeys stood in wooded valleys; they drew in wind, their eyes failed, because there was no grass, because of a people of injustice.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek valleys differs from Hebrew bare heights, lacks the jackal comparison, and adds the people-of-injustice cause at the end of its displayed verse.
Verse 14:7 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:7] Though our iniquities testify against us, YHWH, act for Your name's sake; for our apostasies are many, and we have sinned against You.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:7] If our sins stood against us, Lord, act for us for Your own sake, because our sins before You are many, because we sinned against You.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek for Your own sake lacks the explicit name, and sins replaces the Hebrew apostasies in the second clause.
Verse 14:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:8] Hope of Israel, its Savior in a time of distress, why should You be like a resident foreigner in the land, like a traveler turning aside to spend the night?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:8] Israel's patient expectation, Lord, You save in a time of evils; why did You become like a sojourner upon the earth and like a native turning aside to a lodging?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek native differs from Hebrew traveler, and the opening title is hypomone, patient expectation or endurance; its lexical range is kept visible.
Verse 14:9 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:9] Why should You be like a stunned man, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are in our midst, YHWH, and Your name is called over us; do not leave us.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:9] Will You be like a sleeping man, or like a man unable to save? Yet You are among us, Lord, and Your name has been called over us; do not forget us.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek sleeping, man and forgetting differ from Hebrew stunned, warrior and leaving.
Verse 14:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:10] Thus says YHWH to this people: So they loved to wander; they did not restrain their feet. YHWH does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and attend to their sins.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:10] Thus says the Lord to this people: They loved to move their feet and did not restrain them, and God was not pleased with them; now He will remember their injustices.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the concluding attending-to-sins clause and uses God rather than repeating YHWH.
Verse 14:11 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:11] YHWH said to me: Do not pray for this people's good.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:11] And the Lord said to me: Do not pray for good things for this people,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both renew the prohibition of intercession.
Verse 14:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:12] When they fast, I will not listen to their cry; when they bring burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. For by sword, famine, and pestilence I will consume them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:12] because if they fast, I will not listen to their supplication, and if they bring whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will not be pleased with them, because by sword and famine and death I will bring them to an end.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek sacrifices and death differ from Hebrew grain offering and pestilence.
Verse 14:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:13] I said: Ah, Lord YHWH! Look, the prophets are telling them, 'You will not see sword, and famine will not be yours, for I will give you true peace in this place.'
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:13] And I said: O Lord, look, their prophets prophesy and say, 'You will not see sword, nor will famine be among you, because I will give truth and peace upon the land and in this place.'
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek truth and peace differs from Hebrew true peace and adds upon the land; the false promise remains inside the prophets' quoted speech.
Verse 14:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:14] YHWH said to me: The prophets prophesy falsehood in My name. I did not send them, command them, or speak to them. A false vision, divination, worthlessness, and their heart's deceit they prophesy to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:14] And the Lord said to me: The prophets prophesy false things in My name; I did not send them or command them or speak to them, because they prophesy false visions, divinations, omens, and their heart's choices to you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek omens and choices differ from Hebrew worthlessness and deceit.
Verse 14:15 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:15] Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name though I did not send them, who say, 'Sword and famine will not be in this land': By sword and famine those prophets will come to an end.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:15] Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets prophesying false things in My name, though I did not send them, who say, 'Sword and famine will not be upon this land': They will die a diseased death, and the prophets will be consumed by famine.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek explicitly predicts diseased death rather than the Hebrew sword and adds false things to the opening description.
Verse 14:16 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:16] The people to whom they prophesy will be cast into Jerusalem's streets because of famine and sword, with no one to bury them—them, their wives, sons, and daughters. I will pour their evil upon them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:16] And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into Jerusalem's thoroughfares because of sword and famine, and there will be no one burying them, and their wives and sons and daughters; and I will pour their evils upon them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both extend the announced calamity across households; Greek reverses sword and famine here.
Verse 14:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:17] You shall say this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great fracture, a very grievous wound.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:17] And you shall say this word to them: Bring tears down upon your eyes day and night, and let them not cease, because the daughter of My people was utterly crushed, with a very painful wound.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek commands their tears rather than the speaker's and lacks virgin. The Hebrew lamenting voice is left uncapitalized; Greek My remains in the divine instruction's description.
Verse 14:18 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:18] If I go out to the field, look, those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, look, the sicknesses of famine! For prophet and priest alike travel to a land they do not know.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:18] If I go out to the plain, look, those wounded by the sword; and if I enter the city, look, the pain of famine! For priest and prophet went to a land they did not know.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek wounded differs from Hebrew slain. Hebrew travel is provisional: trade or wander are alternative senses of the verb, and the final knowledge clause can be construed separately.
Verse 14:19 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:19] Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us so that we have no healing? We wait for peace, but there is no good; for a time of healing, but look, terror!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:19] Have You utterly rejected Judah, and has Your soul departed from Zion? Why did You strike us, and there is no healing for us? We waited for peace, and there were no good things; for a time of healing, and look, turmoil!
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek departure differs from Hebrew loathing, and turmoil from terror.
Verse 14:20 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:20] We acknowledge, YHWH, our wickedness, our fathers' iniquity, for we have sinned against You.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:20] We recognized, Lord, our sins and our fathers' injustices, because we sinned before You.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both confess present and ancestral wrongdoing.
Verse 14:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:21] Do not spurn us, for Your name's sake; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember; do not break Your covenant with us.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:21] Abate for Your name's sake; do not destroy Your throne of glory. Remember; do not shatter Your covenant with us.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek asks for abating, with no expressed object, rather than Hebrew not spurning, and has destroying rather than disgracing the throne.
Verse 14:22 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[14:22] Can any of the nations' vapors bring rain? Can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, YHWH our God? We wait for You, for You made all these things.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[14:22] Is there among the nations' idols one who brings rain? Can heaven give its fullness? Is it not You Yourself? And we will wait for You, because You made all these things.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek idols and heaven's fullness differ from Hebrew vapors and showers; Greek lacks YHWH our God in the direct address.