1◆ And it came to pass in the ninth month of Zedekiah king of Judah, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken [up]. 3 And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal-sar-ezer, and Samgar, and Nebu-sar-sekim, and Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer, Naser-rab-mag, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon, 14 and they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and gave him [in charge] to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan: and they brought him out, and he sat in the midst of the people. 15 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in the court of the prison, saying, 16 Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I [will] bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good. 17 But I will save thee in that day, and I will by no means deliver thee into the hands of the men before whom thou art afraid. 18 For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt by no means fall by the sword; and thou shalt find thy life, because thou didst trust in me, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Jeremiah 46 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
There are no verses 4–13 in this translation; the other verses keep their usual numbers.
Cross references (8)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 1:10; Zechariah 2:8; Numbers 23:9; Romans 3:29; Jeremiah 4:7
- 2 2 Kings 23:29; Ezekiel 29:1–21; Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 45:1; Jeremiah 25:19
- 3 Isaiah 21:5; Nahum 2:1; Jeremiah 51:11–12; Nahum 3:14; Joel 3:9
- 14 Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 43:8–9; Jeremiah 2:30; Isaiah 1:20
- 15 Psalm 68:2; Isaiah 66:15–16; Jeremiah 46:5; Psalm 18:14; Psalm 18:39
- 16 Leviticus 26:36–37; Jeremiah 51:9; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:16; Jeremiah 46:6
- 17 Isaiah 19:11–16; Exodus 15:9; 1 Kings 20:10; Isaiah 37:27–29; Ezekiel 31:18
- 18 Jeremiah 48:15; Joshua 19:22; Judges 4:6; Isaiah 47:4; Malachi 1:14
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
Why does my Bible say something different?
- Jeremiah: a shorter book in a different order
The Greek Septuagint of Jeremiah is markedly shorter than the Hebrew text and arranges the book differently: the oracles against the nations come in the middle, after 25:13, not at the end. Hebrew fragments from Qumran show that a shorter Hebrew form of Jeremiah really existed. Many scholars think Jeremiah circulated in two editions.