Jeremiah 17 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 17:9
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 17
Jeremiah 17
Hebrew source: BHS17 • chapter 17
Greek source: LXX17 • chapter 17
Verse 17:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:1] Judah's sin is written with an iron pen, with an adamant point, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the accessed Greek chapter.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The publisher's Greek chapter begins at 17:5. Adamant denotes a very hard material; no precise modern gemstone identification is asserted.
Verse 17:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:2] while their children remember their altars and Asherahs beside leafy trees on the high hills.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the accessed Greek chapter.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The Hebrew memory clause and its relationship to the preceding sentence are retained provisionally; Asherahs names the cultic objects without an invented physical reconstruction.
Verse 17:3 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:3] My mountain in the field, your wealth and all your treasures I will give as plunder, your high places for sin throughout all your borders.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the accessed Greek chapter.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew My mountain in the field is a compressed address, provisionally understood with the following possessions. No parallel Greek is fabricated.
Verse 17:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:4] You will relinquish, through yourself, the inheritance I gave you; I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know, for you kindled a fire in My anger that will burn forever.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [No corresponding verse is displayed in the accessed Greek chapter.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew through yourself renders the difficult uvekha without an unmarked emendation; by your own fault is an interpretive expansion, not a separate Hebrew phrase.
Verse 17:5 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:5] Thus says YHWH: Cursed is the man who trusts in a human, makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:5] Cursed is the person who places his hope in a human and rests the flesh of his arm upon him, and whose heart departs from the Lord;
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek begins without the speech formula and describes resting his arm's flesh upon another, rather than making flesh his arm.
Verse 17:6 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:6] He will be like a shrub in the steppe and will not see when good comes; he will dwell in parched wilderness places, a salt land uninhabited.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:6] and he will be like a wild tamarisk in the wilderness; he will not see when good things come, and will dwell among salt-plants and in a wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly names wild tamarisk and salt-plants; Hebrew's shrub identification is left less specific.
Verse 17:7 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:7] Blessed is the man who trusts in YHWH, whose confidence is YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:7] And blessed is the person who has trusted in the Lord, and the Lord will be his hope;
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both contrast divine trust with the preceding misplaced reliance.
Verse 17:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:8] He will be like a tree planted beside water, sending its roots toward a stream. It will not see when heat comes, its leaf will be green, and in a drought year it will not worry or cease bearing fruit.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:8] and he will be like a tree flourishing beside waters, and will send its roots toward moisture, and will not fear when heat comes. Wooded stems will be upon it; in a rainless year it will not fear or cease bearing fruit.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew here follows the displayed written see form; fear is the traditional reading commonly presented and remains a declared review point. Greek explicitly fears neither heat nor drought and has wooded stems rather than a green leaf.
Verse 17:9 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:9] The heart is deceitful beyond everything and incurable; who can know it?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:9] The heart is deep beyond all things, and so is a human; and who will know him?
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek deep and human differ from Hebrew deceitful and incurable. So is supplies an elliptical comparison in the difficult Greek and-human-is clause; the masculine him is retained. No doctrine of innate wickedness is added to the Greek wording.
Verse 17:10 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:10] I, YHWH, search the heart and test kidneys, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:10] I, the Lord, examine hearts and test kidneys, to give each according to his ways and the fruits of his practices.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both retain the ancient inner-person imagery and the deeds-based measure.
Verse 17:11 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:11] Like a partridge that broods but did not lay, one acquires wealth without justice; in the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:11] A partridge called; it gathered what it did not bear. One makes his wealth without judgment; in the middle of his days they will abandon him, and at his last he will be foolish.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly has calling and gathering and plural they abandon him; Hebrew's brooding metaphor has a singular leaving clause. The ancient bird image is translated without presenting it as verified modern zoology.
Verse 17:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:12] A throne of glory, high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:12] An exalted throne of glory is our sanctuary,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks from the beginning and place; its sentence continues into the following address.
Verse 17:13 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:13] YHWH, Israel's hope, all who abandon You will be ashamed. Those turning away from me will be written in the earth, for they abandoned YHWH, the fountain of living waters.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:13] Israel's patient expectation, Lord, let all who abandoned You be ashamed; let those who departed be written upon the earth, because they abandoned the Lord, the fountain of life.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek uses commands of shame and inscription, lacks Hebrew from me, and has fountain of life rather than living waters. The Hebrew first-person shift remains visible without resolving its speaker by capitalization.
Verse 17:14 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:14] Heal me, YHWH, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for You are my praise.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:14] Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, because You are my boast.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek boast differs from Hebrew praise.
Verse 17:15 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:15] Look, they say to me: Where is YHWH's word? Let it come, please!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:15] Look, they say to me: Where is the Lord's word? Let it come!
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve the challenge to the promised word.
Verse 17:16 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:16] But I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You, nor desired a grievous day; You know. What went out from my lips was before Your face.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:16] But I did not grow weary following after You, and did not desire a human's day; You know. The things going out through my lips are before You.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek weariness differs from Hebrew haste and has a human's day rather than a grievous day. Hebrew's shepherd-after-You construction is provisional and is not replaced by the alternate evil interpretation without notice.
Verse 17:17 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:17] Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in a day of disaster.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:17] Do not become an estrangement to me, sparing me in an evil day.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek estrangement and sparing differ from Hebrew terror and refuge; the Greek participle's relation to the request remains difficult.
Verse 17:18 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:18] Let my pursuers be ashamed, but let me not be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring upon them a day of disaster; break them with double breaking.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:18] Let those pursuing me be ashamed, and may I not be ashamed; may they be terrified, and may I not be terrified. Bring an evil day upon them; crush them with double crushing.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both retain the ancient speaker's imprecation without turning it into a command to readers.
Verse 17:19 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:19] Thus said YHWH to me: Go and stand in the gate of the people's sons, by which Judah's kings enter and leave, and in all Jerusalem's gates.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:19] Thus says the Lord: Go and stand in the gates of your people's sons, through which Judah's kings enter and leave, and in all Jerusalem's gates,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds your, makes the first gates plural, and lacks to me.
Verse 17:20 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:20] Say to them: Hear YHWH's word, kings of Judah, all Judah, and all Jerusalem's inhabitants who enter these gates.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:20] and you shall say to them: Hear the Lord's word, kings of Judah, all Judea and all Jerusalem, who enter these gates:
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek all Jerusalem lacks the separate noun inhabitants.
Verse 17:21 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:21] Thus says YHWH: Guard your lives; do not carry a burden on the Sabbath day and bring it through Jerusalem's gates.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:21] Thus says the Lord: Guard your souls, and do not lift burdens on the Sabbath day or go out through Jerusalem's gates,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek going out differs from Hebrew bringing a burden in through the gates; the contextual burden restriction is not silently replaced with unrestricted travel legislation.
Verse 17:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:22] Do not bring a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work, but consecrate the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:22] and do not bring burdens out of your houses on the Sabbath day, and you shall do no work; consecrate the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. And they did not hear or incline their ear,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek includes the first refusal clauses before its 17:23 marker; Hebrew puts those clauses in 17:23.
Verse 17:23 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:23] But they did not hear or incline their ear; they stiffened their neck so as not to hear or accept correction.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:23] and they hardened their neck beyond their fathers, so as not to hear Me or accept instruction.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek's first refusal clauses were translated in 17:22, and it adds beyond their fathers and Me here.
Verse 17:24 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:24] If you truly listen to Me—YHWH's declaration—not bringing a burden through this city's gates on the Sabbath day, and consecrating the Sabbath day by doing no work on it,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:24] And if you truly listen to Me, says the Lord, not bringing burdens through this city's gates on the Sabbath day and consecrating the Sabbath day by doing no work,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both state the condition for the city's continuing life.
Verse 17:25 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:25] then kings and officials sitting on David's throne will enter this city's gates, riding chariots and horses, they and their officials, Judah's men and Jerusalem's inhabitants; and this city will remain inhabited forever.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:25] then kings and rulers sitting on David's throne will enter through this city's gates, mounted on their chariots and horses, they and their rulers, Judah's men and those dwelling in Jerusalem; and this city will be inhabited forever.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve the repeated ruler references rather than eliminating one as redundant.
Verse 17:26 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:26] They will come from Judah's cities, Jerusalem's surroundings, Benjamin's land, the lowland, hill country and Negeb, bringing burnt offering, sacrifice, grain offering and frankincense, and bringing thanksgiving to YHWH's house.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:26] And they will come from Judah's cities, around Jerusalem, Benjamin's land, the plain, the mountain and the south, bringing whole burnt offerings, sacrifice, incense offerings, grain offering and frankincense, bringing praise into the Lord's house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek adds incense offerings and transliterates manaa, an offering designation corresponding to Hebrew minhah, rendered grain offering here; it is not identified with wilderness manna. Greek praise differs from Hebrew thanksgiving.
Verse 17:27 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[17:27] But if you do not listen to Me to consecrate the Sabbath day and not carry a burden and enter Jerusalem's gates on the Sabbath day, I will kindle fire in her gates; it will consume Jerusalem's palaces and not be quenched.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[17:27] And if you do not listen to Me to consecrate the Sabbath day, not lifting burdens and not entering Jerusalem's gates on the Sabbath day, I will kindle fire in her gates, and it will devour Jerusalem's quarters and not be extinguished.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek city quarters differs from Hebrew palaces; the judgment follows the burden-carrying Sabbath context.