Jeremiah 31

Jeremiah 31
Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew Bible, MS Sassoon 1053, images 283-315.
Book Book of Jeremiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 24
Category Nevi'im

Jeremiah 31 is the thirty-first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

NKJV groups this chapter into:

Verse 15

Thus says the Lord:
“A voice was heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more.” (NKJV)[3]

Verse 22

“How long will you gad about,
O you backsliding daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman shall encompass a man.” (NKJV)[4]

This phrase is said to be the basis of one part in the Jewish wedding that the bride traditionally walks around the groom three or seven times when she arrives at the Chuppah[5]

Verse 31

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—” (NKJV)[6]
  • "New covenant": Jeremiah is the only prophet in the Old Testament, who speaks of "the New Covenant that Jesus Christ inaugurated" (Matthew 26:28).[7] While the "Old Covenant" had "come from the very hand of God", accompanied by miracles and wonders on Mount Sinai, the "New Covenant" is accompanied by the "miracle of changed hearts and lives", as the Spirit of God would enter the lives of the people to assure their adherence to the covenant (Jeremiah 31:34, Acts 2).[7] We know the new covenant has yet to be fulfilled due to verse 34 in a Christian bible "and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: 'Know the LORD'; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more" or verse 33 in a Tanakh.[8]

Verse 38

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.” (KJV)[9]

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 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.[10]

The order of CATSS based on Alfred 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).[10]

Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs'LXX (CATSS)Brenton's LXX
31:1-4038:1-34,36,37,35,38-4038:1-40
48:1-4531:1-45
48:45-47none

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Ulrich 2010, p. 576-578.
  3. ↑ Jeremiah 31:15
  4. ↑ Jeremiah 31:22
  5. ↑ Made in Heaven, A Jewish Wedding Guide by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Moznaim Publishing Company, New York / Jerusalem, 1983, Chapter 19
  6. ↑ Jeremiah 31:31
  7. 1 2 3 4 The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1279-1284.
  8. ↑ http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1131.htm
  9. ↑ Jeremiah 31:38
  10. 1 2 (CCEL - Brenton Jeremiah Appendix)

Bibliography

  • The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999.
  • Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.

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