Jeremiah 12


Jeremiah 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter includes the first of the passages known as the "Confessions of Jeremiah".

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 17 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera, with extant verses 3‑7, 13‑17.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 12 is a part of the Fifth prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Jeremiah's lament (12:1–6)

This part records Jeremiah's lament or 'confession' which will gain a divine response in the following part. From the prose comments it is clear that Jeremiah is the speaker. These six verses uses the inversion of the images and themes from 11:18–23.

Verse 1

The question "Why does the way of the wicked prosper?" is also a theme in ; ;, and.

Verse 5

Possibly a proverbial expression.

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Jerusalem Bible:
The Jerusalem Bible inserts this verse immediately after in chapter 11.

YHWH's Lament (12:7–17)

In this part YHWH continues his previous reply to Jeremiah with a lament, "first in a tone of exhausted grief, then of destructive rage", but ending with a look toward the future, in a hope for Israel to be returned to its inheritance.

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