pp. 40 f., 72.

139 See p. 41.

140 So simply the Greek; the Hebrew, _And the word of the Lord came unto
me saying, Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem saying_, not
only betrays an editorial redundancy, but what follows is addressed
not to Jerusalem but to all Israel. Here if anywhere the Greek has
the original. Jeremiah begins thus to dictate to Baruch.

141 Hebrew _kebel_ = _breath_.

142 Egypt.

143 So Greek.

144 Lit. _shepherds_.

145 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_.

146 Some Hebrew MSS. and Vulgate.

147 Cyprus = Kittim and Kedar, an Arab tribe, are the extremes of the
world then known to the Jews.

148 So Greek.

149 Hebrew marg. _my_.

150 Or _heave_ (Ball), lit. _be aghast_ but the Hebrew is alliterative,
_shommu shamaim_.

151 This couplet is after the Greek, Hebrew has _browsed on thy skull_
for _forced_. Noph = Memphis, Egypt's capital; Tahpanhes = Daphne on
the Egyptian road to Palestine. Either 14-19 or more probably 16
alone is one of Jeremiah's additions to his earlier Oracles after
Egypt's invasion of Palestine in 608.

152 So Greek; Hebrew adds, _when he led thee by the way_.

153 Misraim = Egypt.

154 These last four lines follow the Greek.

155 So Duhm by a better division of words.

156 So the Greek.

157 The Hebrew _kal_ seems to combine here its two meanings of _swift_
and _trifling_.

158 Hebrew _no' ash_; with Greek delete the second _no_.

159 So Greek.

160 The insertion (by a copyist?) of this formula rather weakens the
connection.

161 So some Versions.

162 Greek adds _and as the number of streets in Jerusalem they burn to
Baal_; cp. xi. 13.

163 So Greek.

164 Greek.

165 Greek.

166 Greek _the_.

167 Prose, probably a later insertion when the prophet dictated his
Oracles. See pp. 47 f.

168 The text of this quatrain is corrupt, the rendering above makes use
of the versions.

169 The text of this verse too is uncertain. For _skirts_ Greek has
_hands_; to _innocent_ Hebrew adds _needy_. Some read the second
couplet [_though_] _thou did'st not catch them breaking in, but
because of all these_, i.e. thy sins against Me, thou did'st murder
them.

170 Or _balked_.

171 Greek.

172 Greek; Hebrew _land_.

173 So Duhm after the Greek. Hebrew is impossible.