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Jeremiah 14

Jeremiah 14

Book of Jeremiah, chapter 14

Jeremiah 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.

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Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[1] Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera (4Q70; 225-175 BCE[2][3]) with extant verses 4‑7.[4][5]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[6]

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[7] Jeremiah 14 is a part of the Sixth prophecy (Jeremiah 14-17) in the section of Prophecies of Destruction (Jeremiah 1-25). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{S} 14:1-9 {S} 14:10 {P} 14:11-12 {S} 14:13 {S} 14:14 {S} 14:15-18 {S} 14:19-22 {P}

Verse 1

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.[8]

"Drought": is rendered as Droughts (plural) in the New King James Version[9] or the "Great Drought" in the New American Bible Revised Edition.[10]

Verse 14

And the Lord said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, divination, a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.[11]

The false prophets rely on their own reason and the practice of divination instead of "divine commission".[12]

Verse 15

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, whom I did not send, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not be in this land’—‘By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed![14]

Verse 16

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—them nor their wives, their sons nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness on them.’[15]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  2. [2]
    Cross, F.M. apud Freedman, D.N.; Mathews, K.A. (1985). The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev). Winona Lake, Indiana. p. 55
  3. [3]
    Sweeney, Marvin A. (2010). Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. Vol. 45 (reprint ed.). Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 9781608994182. ISSN 0940-4155.
  4. [4]
    Fitzmyer, Joseph A. (2008). A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 37. ISBN 9780802862419. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  5. [5]
    Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill. p. 566. ISBN 9789004181830. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  6. [6]
    Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  7. [7]
    As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
  8. [8]
    Jeremiah 14:1 RSV
  9. [9]
    Jeremiah 14:1 NKJV
  10. [10]
    Jeremiah 14:1 NABRE
  11. [11]
    Jeremiah 14:14 NKJV
  12. [12]
    The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. p. 1100–1102 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  13. [13]
    Brown 1994 "אֱלִיל"
  14. [14]
    Jeremiah 14:15 NKJV
  15. [15]
    Jeremiah 14:16 NKJV

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