Jeremiah 51

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Jeremiah 51 is the fifty-first 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. This chapter contains the last of a series of "oracles against foreign nations" which commences in chapter 46. [1] Chapters 50 and 51 focus on Babylon. [2] [3] The New American Bible (Revised Edition) denotes this chapter as "the second oracle against Babylon", following on from "the first oracle" contained in chapter 50. [4]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 64 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). [5]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint (with a different chapter and verse numbering), 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] The Septuagint version doesn't contain a part which are generally known to be verses 44d-49a in Christian Bibles. [7]

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in the Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971. [7]

The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935) differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition (=CATSS). [7]

Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs' LXX (CATSS)
51:1-6428:1-64
44:1-30
45:1-5
51:1-30
51:31-35

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. [8] Jeremiah 51 is a part of the prophecies "Against Babylon" in the section of Prophecies against the nations (Jeremiah 46-51). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{S} 51:1-10 {S} 51:11-14 {S} 51:15-19 {P} 51:20-24 {S} 51:25-32 {S} 51:33-35 {S} 51:36-51 {P} 51:52-53 {S} 51:54-57 {S} 51:58 {S} 51:59-64 {P}

Verse 1

Thus says the Lord:
"Behold, I will raise up against Babylon
Against those who dwell in Leb Kamai
A destroying wind." [9]

Verse 41

"Oh, how Sheshach is taken!
Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!" [12]

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References

  1. Coogan 2007, pp. 1148 Hebrew Bible.
  2. O'Connor 2007, p. 524.
  3. Coogan 2007, pp. 1157-1164 Hebrew Bible.
  4. "Bible Gateway passage: Jeremiah 50-51 - New American Bible (Revised Edition)". Bible Gateway.
  5. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  6. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  7. 1 2 3 "Table of Order of Jeremiah in Hebrew and Septuagint". www.ccel.org.
  8. As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
  9. Jeremiah 51:1 NKJV
  10. Note [a] on Jeremiah 51:1 in New King James Version
  11. 1 2 Paul Y. Hoskisson. "Jeremiah's Game". Insights. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  12. Jeremiah 51:41 NKJV
  13. Note [c] on Jeremiah 51:41 in New King James Version

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