Jeremiah 15 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 15:7, 15:11, 15:13, 15:16, 15:18
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 15
Jeremiah 15
Hebrew source: BHS15 • chapter 15
Greek source: LXX15 • chapter 15
Verse 15:1 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:1] YHWH said to me: Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul would not turn toward this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go out.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:1] And the Lord said to me: If Moses and Samuel stand before Me, My soul is not toward them. Send this people away, and let them go out.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Both invoke the two intercessors within the refusal; Greek puts this people in the sending command rather than the preceding clause.
Verse 15:2 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:2] When they say to you, 'Where shall we go?' say to them: Thus says YHWH: Those for death, to death; those for sword, to sword; those for famine, to famine; those for captivity, to captivity.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:2] And if they say to you, 'Where shall we go out?' you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: As many as are for death, to death; as many for sword, to sword; as many for famine, to famine; as many for captivity, to captivity.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: All four destinations remain in their source order.
Verse 15:3 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:3] I will appoint four kinds against them—YHWH's declaration—the sword to kill, dogs to drag away, heaven's birds and the earth's beasts to devour and destroy.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:3] And I will exact vengeance upon them in four kinds, says the Lord: the sword for slaughter, dogs for tearing apart, the earth's wild beasts and heaven's birds for eating and destruction.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek vengeance and tearing differ from Hebrew appointing and dragging; Greek reverses beasts and birds.
Verse 15:4 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:4] I will make them a horror to all the earth's kingdoms because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:4] And I will hand them over to distresses for all the earth's kingdoms because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, concerning all he did in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek distresses differs from the Hebrew horror or trembling term.
Verse 15:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:5] For who will pity you, Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your peace?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:5] Who will spare you, Jerusalem? Who will be afraid for you? Or who will turn back for your peace?
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek fear and turning for peace differ from Hebrew mourning and asking about welfare.
Verse 15:6 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:6] You abandoned Me—YHWH's declaration—you go backward. So I stretched My hand against you and destroyed you; I am weary of relenting.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:6] You turned away from Me, says the Lord; you will go backward. And I will stretch out My hand and destroy you, and I will no longer let them go.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek no longer releasing them differs from Hebrew weariness of relenting and shifts the final object to plural them.
Verse 15:7 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:7] I winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the land's gates; I bereaved and destroyed My people. They did not return from their ways.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:7] And I will scatter them in a dispersion; at My people's gates they were bereaved; they destroyed My people because of their evils.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek changes gates of the land to gates of My people and makes unnamed they the destroyers, rather than divine I; it lacks the explicit refusal to return.
Verse 15:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:8] Their widows became more numerous to Me than the sand of seas. I brought upon them, upon the mother of a young man, a destroyer at noon; suddenly I made agitation and terrors fall upon her.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:8] Their widows multiplied beyond the sea's sand. I brought misery upon a young man's mother at noon; suddenly I cast trembling and haste upon her.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek misery replaces the destroyer, and haste replaces terrors. Hebrew's mother/young-man and agitation phrases are difficult and retained provisionally.
Verse 15:9 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:9] She who bore seven languishes; her soul gasps out. Her sun sets while it is still day; she is ashamed and disgraced. Their remnant I will give to the sword before their enemies—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:9] She who bore seven was emptied; her soul grew faint. Her sun set while the day was still at its middle; she was ashamed and reproached. Their remnants I will give to the sword before their enemies.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly locates the setting at midday and lacks the closing declaration formula.
Verse 15:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:10] Woe to me, my mother, that you bore me a man of contention and strife for the whole land! I have not lent, nor have others lent to me, yet all curse me.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:10] Woe to me, mother! What sort of man did you bear me—a man litigating and disputing with the whole earth? I benefited no one, nor did anyone benefit me; my strength failed among those cursing me.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek benefiting differs from Hebrew lending, and adds the failing-strength clause.
Verse 15:11 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:11] YHWH said: Surely I have released you for good; surely I have made the enemy entreat you in a time of disaster and a time of distress.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:11] May it be, Master, as they are directed—if I did not stand before You in the time of their evils and their affliction, for good toward the enemy!
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: This is exceptionally difficult in both texts. Hebrew's release verb and the enemy-entreating construction are provisional; strengthening or a remnant are alternative readings requiring review. Greek is a prayer to Master with a hanging genitive-absolute phrase, not a divine assurance. Its conditional oath-like syntax is not harmonized to Hebrew.
Verse 15:12 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:12] Can iron break iron from the north, and bronze?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:12] Will iron be recognized? And a bronze enclosure
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek's enclosure phrase continues with your strength in its next verse; Hebrew asks about breaking northern iron and bronze. Greek's question is retained literally and remains an open textual problem.
Verse 15:13 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:13] Your wealth and treasures I will give as plunder without price, for all your sins throughout all your borders.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:13] is your strength. And I will give your treasures as plunder, an exchange for all your sins and in all your borders.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek your strength completes 15:12; it then says an exchange where Hebrew explicitly says without price. The source boundary is preserved without duplicating the strength clause.
Verse 15:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:14] I will make them pass with your enemies into a land you do not know, for a fire is kindled in My anger; it will burn upon you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:14] And I will enslave you all around to your enemies in the land you did not know, because a fire has been kindled from My fury; it will burn upon you.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew's passing clause has no expressed object; them is supplied for the preceding wealth and treasures, and the construction remains open. Greek explicitly has enslaving you and all around, without an emendation being inserted into Hebrew.
Verse 15:15 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:15] You know, YHWH; remember me and attend to me, and avenge me upon my pursuers. Do not, in Your slowness to anger, take me away. Know that for You I bear reproach.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:15] Lord, remember me and visit me and vindicate me against those pursuing me; do not delay. Know how I received reproach concerning You
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek vindication differs from Hebrew vengeance, lacks the taking-away clause, and continues its reproach sentence into the next source verse. Do not delay renders the compressed not-unto-patience phrase provisionally.
Verse 15:16 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:16] Your words were found, and I ate them; Your word became to me joy and my heart's gladness, for Your name is called over me, YHWH, God of hosts.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:16] from those rejecting Your words. Bring them to an end, and Your word will become to me rejoicing and my heart's joy, because Your name has been called over me, Lord Almighty.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek lacks the finding-and-eating image and instead completes 15:15 with the rejecters, then commands their ending. The two very different openings are not combined.
Verse 15:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:17] I did not sit in the company of merrymakers and exult; because of Your hand I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:17] I did not sit in their gathering as they played, but I was reverent before Your hand. I sat alone because I was filled with bitterness.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds reverence, has bitterness rather than indignation, and leaves the filling agent unexpressed.
Verse 15:18 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:18] Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to heal? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream, waters that cannot be trusted?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:18] Why do those grieving me overpower me? My wound is firm; from where will I be healed? It indeed became to me like false water having no faithfulness.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek begins with hostile people rather than enduring pain and makes it, grammatically the wound, like false water; Hebrew directly questions You. Stream is supplied in Hebrew from the water image and the deceptive term.
Verse 15:19 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:19] Therefore thus says YHWH: If you return, I will restore you; you shall stand before Me. If you bring the precious out of the worthless, you will be as My mouth. They will turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:19] Therefore thus says the Lord: If you return, I will restore you, and you will stand before Me. If you bring out the honored from the unworthy, you will be as My mouth; and they will turn to you, and you will not turn to them.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both restore the speaking commission conditionally without erasing the preceding complaint.
Verse 15:20 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:20] I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; they will fight against you but will not prevail, for I am with you to save and deliver you—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:20] And I will make you to this people like a fortified bronze wall, and they will fight against you but certainly will not prevail against you, because I am with you to save you
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek continues the rescue infinitive in 15:21 and lacks the closing declaration formula in 15:20.
Verse 15:21 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[15:21] I will deliver you from the wicked's hand and redeem you from the ruthless one's grasp.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[15:21] and to rescue you from the hand of evil people, and I will ransom you from the hand of pestilent people.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek loimoi is a hostile characterization of people, not a medical diagnosis; both retain the promise of rescue and ransom.