Jeremiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Jeremiah 25 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 36:1; 2 Kings 24:1–2; Jeremiah 46:2; Daniel 1:1
- 2 Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 26:2; Psalm 49:1–2; Jeremiah 38:1–2; Jeremiah 35:13
- 3 Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremiah 1:2; Jeremiah 7:13; Jeremiah 29:19
- 4 Jeremiah 25:3; Jeremiah 26:5; Jeremiah 32:33; 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Jeremiah 22:21
- 5 Jeremiah 7:7; Genesis 17:8; Isaiah 55:6–7; Jeremiah 17:25; Jonah 3:8–10
- 6 Deuteronomy 8:19; 1 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 17:35; Deuteronomy 6:14; Jeremiah 35:15
- 7 2 Kings 21:15; Proverbs 8:36; Deuteronomy 32:21; 2 Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 7:18–19
- 9 Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 18:16; Isaiah 13:3; Habakkuk 1:6–10; Ezekiel 29:18–20
- 10 Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 16:9; Ezekiel 26:13; Revelation 18:22–23; Jeremiah 33:10–11
- 11 Daniel 9:2; Zechariah 1:12; Jeremiah 25:12; 2 Chronicles 36:21–22; Zechariah 7:5
- 12 Isaiah 13:19; Daniel 9:2; Jeremiah 29:10; Jeremiah 51:62–64; Jeremiah 50:1–46
- 13 Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 1:5; Daniel 5:28; Revelation 10:11; Daniel 5:31
- 14 Jeremiah 51:6; Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:9; Jeremiah 50:41; Isaiah 66:6
- 15 Psalm 75:8; Isaiah 51:17; Job 21:20; Revelation 14:10; Jeremiah 51:7
- 16 Jeremiah 51:7; Nahum 3:11; Revelation 18:3; Jeremiah 25:27; Revelation 14:10
- 17 Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:28; Jeremiah 46:1–28; Ezekiel 43:3; Jeremiah 27:3
- 18 Jeremiah 24:9; Jeremiah 44:22; Psalm 60:3; Isaiah 51:17–22; 2 Kings 22:19
- 19 Jeremiah 46:2; Nahum 3:8–10; Jeremiah 46:13–26; Ezekiel 29:1–21; Jeremiah 43:9–11
- 20 Job 1:1; Ezekiel 30:5; Lamentations 4:21; Jeremiah 50:37; Isaiah 20:1
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.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… mouth." And their force is exactly the same, either when multiplied by ten, as seventy and seven hundred (whence the seventy years mentioned in Jeremiah may be taken in a spiritual sense for the whole time during which the Church is a sojourner among aliens); or when multiplied into themselves, as ten into ten gives one hundred, and twelve into …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
The shadow of that Sion, which was granted to the Jews, in an image, in a figure, was in captivity in Babylonia, and after seventy years that people turned back to its own city....But when all time is past, then we return to our country, as after seventy years that people returned from the Babylonish captivity, for Babylon is …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)