as spoken.
Verse 3 is difficult. Duhm omits most, Cornill all, as breaking the
metrical schemes which they think Jeremiah invariably used. But the
form of the Hebrew text--short lines of two beats each, with one
longer line--is one into which Jeremiah sometimes falls (see pp. 46
f.). _Like a bow_ so Greek; Hebrew, _their bow_. Cp. our _draw a
long bow_ (Ball).

394 So Syriac.

395 Again Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_. The text is uncertain. Hebrew,
_thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, they refuse to know Me_.

396 Hebrew adds _of Hosts_.

397 So Greek, Hebrew omits; more seems to have dropped out.

398 So Hebrew text; Hebrew margin and Greek _polished_.

399 So Greek.

400 So Greek. Hebrew, _I will raise_ and adds _lamentation_.

401 Hebrew adds _passing over_, probably a mistaken transference from
verse 12. Greek and Latin omit.

402 So Greek.

403 Hebrew uselessly adds _nor walked therein_.

404 Hebrew adds _of hosts_; and _this people_ for _them_.

405 Hebrew adds _of Hosts_ and _consider ye_ which Greek omits as well
as _hasten_ in 18; the text of the four lines is uncertain. For _us_
and _our_ Greek has _you_ and _your_.

406 So Vulgate.

407 Hebrew has the obvious intrusion, _Speak thus, Rede of the Lord_,
which Greek lacks.

408 I.e. of their hair; see xxv. 23, xlix. 32. Herodotus says (iii. 8)
that some Arabs shaved the hair above their temples; forbidden to
Jews, Lev. xix. 27.

409 So Greek; Hebrew, _the land_. The Hebrew part. _sitting_ may like
that in v. 18 be future.

410 So Greek; Hebrew, _in the land at this time_.

411 So Greek, Hebrew _my_.

412 So Greek, Hebrew _my_.

413 So some Greek and Latin versions, Syriac and Targ.

414 Greek; Hebrew omits.

415 I.e. Rulers.

416 Hebrew, _pastures_.

417 See above, pp. 46 f., 93.

418 So, following some Greek MSS., Targ., and the parallel Ps. lxxix. 6,
7.

419 Above, pp. 152 ff.

420 P. 176. Practically all agree to this. Admitting its possibility,
Duhm prefers to assign the lines to the Scythian invasion, against
which see the reasons offered by Cornill _in loco_, who further
suggests a connection between xi. 15, 16 and xii. 7-13. Ball, after
Naegelsbach, argues for a date before Carchemish.

421 The text of these four lines is hardly metrical.

422