Jeremiah 1 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 1:17
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 1
Jeremiah 1
Hebrew source: BHS1 • chapter 1
Greek source: LXX1 • chapter 1
Verse 1:1 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:1] The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:1] The word of God that came upon Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests, who lived in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek introduces God's word rather than Jeremiah's words and explicitly says that he lived in Anathoth. Familiar corresponding names are used without erasing a genuinely different name.
Verse 1:2 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:2] to whom YHWH's word came in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:2] which became God's word to him in the days of Josiah son of Amos, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek has Amos where Hebrew has Amon, and God where Hebrew has YHWH. The name difference is not silently normalized.
Verse 1:3 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:3] It also came in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until Jerusalem's exile in the fifth month.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:3] It also came in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah, king of Judah, until Jerusalem's captivity in the fifth month.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew explicitly names completion of the eleventh year; Greek does not. All dates remain spelled out.
Verse 1:4 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:4] YHWH's word came to me, saying,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:4] The Lord's word came to me, saying,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The narration shifts to the prophet's first person.
Verse 1:5 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:5] Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you; before you came out of the womb, I consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:5] Before I formed you in the belly, I know you; before you came out of the womb, I have consecrated you. I have appointed you a prophet to nations.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek uses present know and perfect consecrated/appointed; Hebrew recounts the acts as prior knowledge and consecration. The personal commission is not expanded into an unrelated universal claim.
Verse 1:6 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:6] I said, Ah, Lord YHWH! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:6] I said, O Master Lord! Look, I do not know how to speak, because I am young.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The source-specific double divine titles are retained. Youth does not establish an exact age.
Verse 1:7 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:7] YHWH said to me, Do not say, I am a youth, for you will go to everyone to whom I send you, and you will speak everything I command you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:7] The Lord said to me, Do not say, I am young, because you will go to everyone to whom I send you, and you will speak according to everything I command you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The commission answers the objection without supplying a biographical age.
Verse 1:8 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:8] Do not fear them, for I am with you to rescue you—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:8] Do not fear them, because I am with you to rescue you, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The promise of presence and rescue agrees.
Verse 1:9 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:9] YHWH stretched out His hand and touched my mouth. YHWH said to me, Look, I have put My words in your mouth.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:9] The Lord stretched out His hand toward me and touched my mouth. The Lord said to me, Look, I have put My words into your mouth.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly adds toward me to the gesture.
Verse 1:10 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:10] See, today I have appointed you over the nations and kingdoms, to uproot and pull down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:10] Look, today I have appointed you over nations and kingdoms, to uproot, demolish, destroy, build and plant.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew lists six activities; Greek lists five, without a separate counterpart to overthrow. Both destructive and constructive aspects are retained.
Verse 1:11 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:11] YHWH's word came to me, saying, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, I see an almond rod.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:11] The Lord's word came to me, saying, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, A nut-wood staff.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek karyine names nut-tree wood rather than explicitly reproducing the Hebrew almond word. The Hebrew almond/watchful soundplay continues in 1:12 and is not recreated by inventing an English tree name.
Verse 1:12 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:12] YHWH said to me, You have seen well, for I am watching over My word to perform it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:12] The Lord said to me, You have seen well, because I am watchful over My words to perform them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew shaqed, almond, and shoqed, watching, form a wordplay. Greek retains watchfulness but has plural words and no matching tree-word soundplay.
Verse 1:13 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:13] YHWH's word came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? I said, I see a pot being fanned to boiling, its face tilted away from the north.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:13] The Lord's word came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? I said, A cauldron heated from beneath, its face away from the north.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Tilted is supplied to explain the pot's face in Hebrew; the precise orientation remains an interpretive question. Greek explicitly describes heating beneath.
Verse 1:14 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:14] YHWH said to me, From the north disaster will be opened upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:14] The Lord said to me, From the north calamities will be kindled upon all who inhabit the land.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek kindled and plural calamities differ from Hebrew opened and singular disaster.
Verse 1:15 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:15] For look, I am calling all the clans of the northern kingdoms—YHWH's declaration. They will come and each set his throne at the entrance of Jerusalem's gates, against all her surrounding walls and against all Judah's cities.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:15] Because look, I am summoning all the kingdoms from the north of the land, says the Lord. They will come and each set his throne at the forecourts of Jerusalem's gates, against all her surrounding walls and against all Judah's cities.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lacks clans and adds of the land to north. The throne-setting image is retained without inserting a named invader.
Verse 1:16 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:16] I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil, because they abandoned Me, burned offerings to other gods and bowed down to the work of their hands.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:16] I will speak to them with judgment concerning all their evil, because they abandoned Me, sacrificed to foreign gods and bowed down to the works of their hands.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew burning offerings and Greek sacrificing are retained as distinct cultic descriptions.
Verse 1:17 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:17] But you, gird your waist, rise and speak to them everything I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, lest I dismay you before them.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:17] But you, gird your waist, rise and tell them everything I command you. Do not fear them or be terrified before them, because I am with you to rescue you, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek replaces the Hebrew warning of divine dismay with a reassurance of divine presence and rescue. Both readings are preserved without harmonization.
Verse 1:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:18] For look, today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and bronze walls against the whole land: against Judah's kings, her officials, her priests and the people of the land.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:18] Look, on this day I have made you like a fortified city and like a strong bronze wall against all Judah's kings, its rulers and the people of the land,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the iron pillar, whole-land phrase and priests, and has singular bronze wall. The omitted items are not supplied from Hebrew.
Verse 1:19 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[1:19] They will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I am with you—YHWH's declaration—to rescue you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[1:19] and they will fight you, but they will certainly not prevail against you, because I am with you to rescue you, said the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek's emphatic negation is expressed explicitly; the rescue promise agrees.