174 The two Hebrew verbs in this couplet, _natar_ and _shamar_ mean _to
keep_ (or _maintain_) and _to watch_; they are usually transitive
and (in the sense here intended) are followed by a noun, _anger_ or
_wrath_, which English versions supply here. But its absence from
_both_ the Hebrew and Greek texts leads us to take the verbs as
intransitive, as is the case with _natar_ in New-Hebrew.

175 Verses 6-18, in prose break the connection both of style and meaning
between 5 and 19 and cannot in whole be Jeremiah's or from his
period. This is especially true of 16-18 which assume the
destruction of the Ark and the Exile of Judah as well as of Israel
as already actual. But the passage probably contains genuine
fragments from Jeremiah.

176 So Greek.

177 So one Hebrew MS. and Syriac.

178 Hebrew adds _her sister_.

179 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_.

180 So Greek.

181 Lit. _make not My face to fall_.

182 Greek; Hebrew _ye have_.

183 That is _Lord_ and _Husband_.

184 So Greek.

185 Hebrew adds _to the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem_.

186 So Greek; Hebrew _your_; after _North_ Greek has _and from all
lands_.

187 In antithesis to verse 5 of which it is the immediate sequel both in
sense and metre.

188 Feminine, i.e. Judah was a daughter, and a son's portion was
designed for her.

189 So finely Ball.

190 The riotous festivals on the high-places.

191 Hebrew adds _the Lord_.

192 This couplet after the Greek.

193 I agree with Cornill and Skinner that these two verses are a later
addition. The answer to the people's confession comes in verses 3
and 4.

194 So some Hebrew MSS. and versions.

195 Hebrew _niru lakem nir_; also in English the noun and verb are the
same--_to fallow_ or _fallow up_ = _to break_ or _plough up_.

196 So Greek and other versions.

197 iii. 22_b_, 25; Hos. v. 15-vi. 3.

198 So Greek.

199 iv. 3, 4.

200 xiii. 23.

201 xvii. 9, 10.

202 See further, Lecture viii.

203 See above, p. 73.

204 xxxvi. 32.

205 On the subject of this paragraph see the appendix on "The Medes and
Scythians." The following may be consulted: N. Schmidt in "Enc.
Bibl." on "Jeremiah" and "Scythians;" Driver, "The Book of the
Prophet Jeremiah," p. 21; J. R. Gillies, "Jeremiah, the Man and His
Message,"