Jeremiah 7 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 7:10, 7:18
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 7
Jeremiah 7
Hebrew source: BHS7 • chapter 7
Greek source: LXX7 • chapter 7
Verse 7:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:1] The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, saying:
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 7:2; this absence notice is editorial, not a translated Greek verse.
Verse 7:2 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:2] Stand in the gate of YHWH's house and proclaim this word there. Say: Hear YHWH's word, all Judah who enter these gates to bow down to YHWH.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:2] Hear the Lord's word, all Judea!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the gate setting, the command to stand and proclaim, and the description of worshippers.
Verse 7:3 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:3] Thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Make your ways and deeds good, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:3] Thus says the Lord, Israel's God: Correct your ways and your practices, and I will settle you in this place.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek lacks of hosts; both pointed/read forms here make settling the people the promised result.
Verse 7:4 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:4] Do not trust deceptive words, saying, 'YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple, YHWH's temple are these!'
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:4] Do not put your confidence in yourselves on false words, because they will not benefit you at all when they say, 'The Lord's temple, the Lord's temple it is.'
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek has two temple repetitions rather than three and adds the explicit lack of benefit; the plural Hebrew these is retained rather than silently made singular.
Verse 7:5 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:5] For if you truly make your ways and deeds good, if you truly execute justice between a man and his neighbor,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:5] For if you truly correct your ways and practices and truly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor,
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The conditional sentence continues through 7:7.
Verse 7:6 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:6] do not oppress the resident foreigner, orphan, or widow, do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not follow other gods to your own harm,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:6] and do not oppress a newcomer, orphan, or widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and do not follow foreign gods to your own harm,
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek proselytos here denotes the newcomer or resident outsider in the protection list; it is not automatically restricted to a later formal convert category.
Verse 7:7 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:7] then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land I gave your fathers, from long ago and forever.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:7] then I will settle you in this place, in the land I gave your fathers, from age to age.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both complete the conditional promise of settlement.
Verse 7:8 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:8] Look, you are trusting deceptive words that cannot benefit you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:8] But if you have trusted false words from which you will receive no benefit,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek opens a conditional construction rather than the Hebrew direct assertion.
Verse 7:9 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:9] Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn offerings to Baal, and follow other gods you have not known,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:9] and murder and commit adultery and steal and swear unjustly, and you burned incense to Baal and followed foreign gods whom you do not know, to your own harm,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek reorders the first offenses and adds to your own harm; its verbs shift between present and past.
Verse 7:10 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:10] then come and stand before Me in this house over which My name is called, and say, 'We are delivered'—in order to do all these abominations?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:10] and you came and stood before Me in the house over which My name has been called and said, 'We have kept away, so as not to do all these abominations,'
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Greek's profession of abstaining differs from Hebrew claiming deliverance while continuing offenses. Greek apechomai with the negative infinitival clause is rendered as abstention, not an unmarked reversal into the Hebrew wording.
Verse 7:11 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:11] Has this house over which My name is called become a robbers' cave in your eyes? Look, I too have seen—YHWH's declaration.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:11] is My house, over which My name has been called there, a robbers' cave before you? And look, I have seen, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The conditional sequence in Greek reaches its rhetorical question here; Hebrew this house differs from Greek My house.
Verse 7:12 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:12] Go, please, to My place in Shiloh, where I first caused My name to dwell, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:12] For go to My place in Shiloh, where I formerly made My name dwell, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both invoke Shiloh as the comparison rather than guaranteeing the current sanctuary's security.
Verse 7:13 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:13] And now, because you have done all these deeds—YHWH's declaration—and I spoke to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer,
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:13] And now, because you did all these works, and I spoke to you and you did not hear Me, and I called you and you did not answer,
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks the declaration formula and the Hebrew rising-early-and-speaking idiom for persistent address.
Verse 7:14 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:14] I will do to the house over which My name is called, in which you trust, and to the place I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:14] I will also do to this house over which My name has been called, in which you have trusted, and to the place I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both state the sanctuary comparison explicitly.
Verse 7:15 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:15] I will cast you away from My presence, as I cast away all your brothers, all Ephraim's offspring.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:15] And I will throw you away from My presence, as I threw away your brothers, all Ephraim's offspring.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek lacks the first all but retains the collective Ephraim reference.
Verse 7:16 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:16] And you, do not pray on behalf of this people, do not lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not press Me, for I am not listening to you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:16] And you, do not pray for this people, and do not ask that they receive mercy, and do not pray or approach Me on their behalf, because I will not listen.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek explicitly mentions asking for mercy and approaching; Hebrew has the lifted cry and pressing intercession.
Verse 7:17 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:17] Do you not see what they are doing in Judah's cities and Jerusalem's streets?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:17] Do you not see what they are doing in Judah's cities and Jerusalem's streets?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both direct attention to the public practices next described.
Verse 7:18 Disparate
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:18] The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven and to pour drink offerings to other gods, so as to provoke Me.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:18] Their sons gather wood, and their fathers burn a fire, and their women work dough to make cakes for heaven's host; and they poured drink offerings to foreign gods to provoke Me to anger.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew Queen of Heaven is the conventional reading of the difficult meleket form; Greek explicitly has heaven's host. The two designations are not merged or linked to a later religious figure in the translation.
Verse 7:19 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:19] Is it Me they provoke?—YHWH's declaration. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their faces?
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:19] Is it Me they provoke to anger? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, so that their faces are put to shame?
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both redirect the effect of provocation toward the perpetrators' shame.
Verse 7:20 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:20] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Look, My anger and My fury are being poured upon this place, upon human and beast, upon the field's tree and the ground's fruit; it will burn and not be quenched.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:20] Therefore thus says the Lord: Look, My wrath and fury are poured upon this place, upon the people and the livestock, upon every tree of their field and all the earth's produce; and it will burn and not be extinguished.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly adds every/all to trees and produce and has the shorter divine title.
Verse 7:21 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:21] Thus says YHWH of hosts, Israel's God: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat!
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:21] Thus says the Lord: Gather your whole burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and eat meat!
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Greek lacks of hosts, Israel's God. Both preserve the provocative command regarding offerings normally distinguished by how their meat is handled.
Verse 7:22 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:22] For I did not speak to your fathers or command them on the day I brought them out of Egypt's land concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:22] For I did not speak to your fathers or command them on the day I brought them up from Egypt's land concerning whole burnt offerings and sacrifice.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both explicitly retain the negative statement. Not merely or chiefly is not inserted to resolve its relationship with other Pentateuchal passages.
Verse 7:23 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:23] But this word I commanded them, saying: Hear My voice, and I will be your God and you will be My people; walk in all the way I command you, so that it may go well with you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:23] But this utterance I commanded them, saying: Hear My voice, and I will be your God and you will be My people; and walk in all My ways that I command you, so that it may be well with you.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly calls the ways My ways and uses the plural. Reception—Irenaeus, Against HeresiesIV.17.3–4, reads this call to obedience as directed toward human salvation, emphasizing faith, obedience, and righteousness. Source: IrenaeusIV17, English presentation.
Verse 7:24 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:24] But they did not listen or incline their ear; they walked in counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward rather than forward.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:24] And they did not hear Me, and their ear did not attend, but they walked in the thoughts of their evil heart and went backward rather than forward.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek thoughts compresses the Hebrew counsels and stubbornness description.
Verse 7:25 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:25] From the day your fathers left Egypt's land until this day, I sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:25] From the day their fathers left Egypt's land until this day, I sent out to you all My servants the prophets by day and at dawn, and I sent them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek their fathers shifts person, and its repeated sending and day-and-dawn wording are retained; Hebrew's idiom emphasizes persistent initiative.
Verse 7:26 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:26] But they did not listen to Me or incline their ear; they stiffened their neck and did worse than their fathers.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:26] And they did not hear Me, and their ear did not attend, and they hardened their neck beyond their fathers.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek makes the comparison part of hardening the neck, where Hebrew adds a separate doing-worse clause.
Verse 7:27 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:27] You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[—] [The accessed Greek source combines 7:27–28; its complete translation appears in the following row.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The publisher labels the next Greek unit 27–28; Hebrew's explicit prediction of unanswered speaking and calling is absent from that unit. No independent Greek 7:27 is invented.
Verse 7:28 Divergent
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:28] You shall say to them: This is the nation that did not obey the voice of YHWH its God and did not accept correction. Faithfulness has perished and been cut off from their mouth.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:27–28] And you shall say this word to them: This is the nation that did not hear the Lord's voice or accept instruction; faithfulness failed from their mouth.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: The entire Greek displayed unit 7:27–28 is translated here once. It is shorter than the two Hebrew verses and lacks its God and the separate cut-off clause.
Verse 7:29 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:29] Cut off your consecrated hair and cast it away; lift a lament on the bare heights, for YHWH has rejected and abandoned the generation of His fury.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:29] Shear your head and cast it away, and take up a lament on your lips, because the Lord rejected and thrust away the generation doing these things.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek lips differs from Hebrew bare heights; the generation doing these things replaces generation of His fury. Hebrew nezer evokes consecrated hair or a crown, retained through the hair-cutting command.
Verse 7:30 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:30] For Judah's sons have done evil in My eyes—YHWH's declaration. They placed their detestable things in the house over which My name is called, to defile it.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:30] For Judah's sons did evil before Me, says the Lord; they set their abominations in the house over which My name has been called, to defile it.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe desecration within the sanctuary.
Verse 7:31 Different
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:31] They built Topheth's high places in the valley of Ben-hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in fire, which I did not command and which did not arise in My heart.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:31] And they built Topheth's altar, which is in the ravine of the son of Hinnom, to burn up their sons and daughters in fire, which I did not command them and did not conceive in My heart.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek singular altar differs from Hebrew high places; both categorically deny divine command for the child-burning practice.
Verse 7:32 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:32] Therefore look, days are coming—YHWH's declaration—when it will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; and they will bury in Topheth for lack of space.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:32] Therefore look, days are coming, says the Lord, and they will no longer say Topheth's Altar or Ravine of the Son of Hinnom, but Ravine of the Slain; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no space.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek retains altar in the former name and uses the slain rather than the abstract slaughter.
Verse 7:33 Same
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:33] This people's corpses will be food for the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:33] And this people's dead will be food for heaven's birds and the earth's wild beasts, and there will be no one to drive them off.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both describe the denial of protected burial.
Verse 7:34 Similar
Hebrew–English Rabbinic Priority
[7:34] I will make the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the voice of bridegroom and the voice of bride, cease from Judah's cities and Jerusalem's streets, for the land will become a ruin.
Greek–English Saints Priority
[7:34] And I will stop the sound of those rejoicing and the sound of those glad, the voice of bridegroom and the voice of bride, from Judah's cities and Jerusalem's thoroughfares, because the whole land will become a desolation.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek explicitly adds whole and uses rejoicing people where Hebrew names joy and gladness.