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4Q71 Jeremiahb

Language: Hebrew (most of the scroll) and Aramaic (10:11)

Date: 250-150 B.C.

Location: Qumran Cave 4

Contents: Jeremiah 9:23-10:21 (Hebrew 9:22-10:21)

 

Jeremiah 9

23 Yahweh says,

“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.

Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might.

Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

24 But let him who glories glory in this,

that he has understanding, and knows me,

that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth;

for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

[..]

26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

 

Jeremiah 10

[..]

2 Yahweh says,

“Don’t learn the way of the nations,

and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky;

for the nations are dismayed at them.

[..]

They deck it with silver and with gold.

They fasten it with nails and with hammers and with nails,

so that it can’t move.

[..][1]

9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish,

and gold from Uphaz,

the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith.

Their clothing is blue and purple.

They are all the work of skillful men.

[..]

11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’”[2]

[..]

13 When he utters his voice,

the waters in the heavens roar,

and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightnings for the rain,

and brings the wind light[3] out of his treasuries.

[..]

15 They are vanity, a work of delusion.

In the time of their visitation they will perish.

[..]

18 For Yahweh says,

“Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time,

and will distress them, that they may feel it find your plague.”[4]

[..]

20 My tent has been destroyed,

and all my cords are broken.

My children have gone away from me, and they and my flock[5] are no more.

There is no one to spread my tent any more,

to set up my curtains.

[..]

22 The voice of news, behold, it comes,

and a great commotion out of the north country,

to make the cities of Judah a desolation,

a dwelling place of jackals.

 



[1] The scroll does not have enough space for verses 5-8 in the MT, and probably indicates that the scroll matches the shorter LXX reading.

[2] This verse is in Aramaic in this scroll and in the MT.

[3] LXX reading supplied rather than MT

[4] LXX reading supplied rather than MT

[5] LXX reading supplied rather than MT

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