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Jeremiah 13 describes weeping that is not used in the Greek Septuagint. In Hebrew, it forms a pair with the line before it, adding to the emotion and rhythm of the passage. The Greek version may have dropped the phrase to avoid repetition.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Jeremiah 13:17
Hebrew Bible
16 Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile. 17 But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly, and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the Lord’s flock, will be carried into exile.” 18 The Lord told me: “Tell the king and the queen mother, ‘Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.
Date: 500–401 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Jeremiah 13:17
Septuagint
16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and you shall wait for light, and see the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness. 17 But if you will not listen, your soul shall weep in secret because of pride, and your eyes shall pour down tears, because the Lord's flock is sorely bruised. 18 Say to the king and the princes, Humble yourselves, and sit down; for your crown of glory is removed from your head.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) appears ill-advised when recommending, on the strength of the Septuagint the deletion of דמַע תִּמְרֻרִים ("it sheds bitter tears") in Jeremiah 13:17. Destroying the parallelism with בָּכָה ("it weeps"), such a deletion must be scouted. Biblia Hebraica Kittel shows greater wisdom when merely recording the absence of these words in the Septuagint and forgoing to recommend deletion ..."
Stan Rummel, ed., Ras Shamra Parallels: The Texts from Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible, AnOr 51 (Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1981), 3:187.
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