Chapter XI: Part 11

675 Erbt first made clear the metrical form of these verses, though I
think too grudgingly, and has ignored the fact that they are not one
but two Oracles.

676 So Greek.

677 Generally accepted instead of Hebrew _vows_.

678 Calvin.

679 The rest of 27 and 28_a_, the destruction of all the Jews in Egypt,
is a prose expansion.

680 Hebrew adds, but Greek lacks, _from me or from them_.

681 xx. 8.

682 i. 6.

683 xx. 7.

684 vi. 11, xx. 9.

685 xv. 10; cp. xii. 1.

686 i. 10, p. 83.

687 xx. 2 ff.; see p. 192.

688 xxii. 18 f.; see p. 167.

689 xxxviii. 19 ff.; pp. 282 f.

690 xxix. 24-32.

691 xxviii. 17.

692 xlv. 5; p. 228.

693 So Greek; Hebrew _thou lettest me see_.

694 Greek; Hebrew takes this with the next line.

695 So generally read since Hitzig; Hebrew has _bread_, i.e. _fruit_.

696 Others: _on Thee I have rolled_; cp. xx. 12.

697 Greek; Hebrew _thy_.

698 Hebrew copyists senselessly repeat, _Thus saith the Lord of Hosts_;
Greek omits.

699 So Greek.

700 Greek.

701 Greek, meaning, Thy sanction to their curses.

702 The text of the last six lines is corrupt; the above is Duhm’s
reading after the Greek. See too J. R. Gillies. Verses 13, 14 are
out of place here, see xvii. 3, 4.

703 Greek omits.

704 So Greek; Hebrew (with same consonants, but the first two
transposed) _Found were Thy words_.

705 So Greek; Hebrew _I did eat them_. But all this bracketed quatrain
breaks the connection between what precedes and verse 17.

706 Cornill after Greek.

707 Omit _of bronze_ for the metre’s sake; it is a copyist’s echo of i.
18. Cornill omits _impassable_ instead.

708 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_.

709 Hebrew precedes this with And the Word of _the Lord came unto me_,
which Greek is without, thus closely connecting xvi. 2 ff. with xv.
21.

710 In 3, 4 the bracketed lines are probably expansions of the original.

711 Hebrew, etc., add _nor bemoan them_—expansion.

712 5_b_, 6_a_ are not in Greek.

713 So Greek.

714 By a change of vowels.

715 So Greek.

716 Greek lacks _of Hosts_.

717 Perhaps 14 connects with 9, 10. The line _For Thou art my praise_ is
a late addition.

718 So Aq. Symm. Syr., reading _ra’ah, evil_ for _ro’eh, shepherd_.

_ 719 Torah_, see p. 154.

720 So Greek; Hebrew _of mine accusers_.

721 To this line Greek adds _have privily laid a stumbling block_. Most
regard both lines as an expansion from 22.

722 Pl.; So Greek.

723 Pl.; So Greek.

724 Above, pp. 276 ff.

725 In contrast with its boldness in textual criticism a curious
timidity of sentiment has set through recent O.T. scholarship in
Germany from which the older German scholars were free.

726 Greek _the name of the Lord_.

727 Greek; Hebrew adds _any more_.

728 So Greek.

729 Hebrew adds _of Hosts_.

730 Verse 13, a doxology, is probably a later addition.

731 So Greek.

732 Cp. xviii. 20 f. p. 329.

733 xii. 5; cp. xv. 19.

734 iv. 10; p. 322; xv. 18.

735 i. 17 f.; cp. xv. 19.

736 See above, p. 160.

737 Hebrew adds, _Thou seest me_.

738 See also p. 160. Verse 4 is clearly out of place here, referring to
a hardly relevant subject. Verse 6 is less improbable an
illustration of the harder troubles in store for the prophet. There
is no reason to doubt the genuineness of the rest: _Thou can’st not
trust_, so Greek; Hebrew _thou art trusting_. Hitzig, etc., by
changing one consonant read _thou art fleeing_. _Rankness_ lit.
_pride_ or _extravagance_. If verse 6 is original, the date of the
whole is early.

739 See above, p. 202.

740 v. 31; p. 125.

741 ii. 22 f.; xiii. 23; xvi. 12; xvii. 1; etc.

742 ii. 11-13, 22, 25, 31 f.

743 ii. 35; v. 31; vii. 4-11, 21 ff.; xi. 15; xiv. 12.

744 iv. 3, 4; vii. 3 ff. etc.

745 xv. 18.

_ 746 Debase not the throne of Thy Glory_, xiv. 21.

747 xiv. 8, 9; see p. 57.

748 x. 1-16 is a later writer’s; see p. 207.

749 vi. 27; see pp. 132, 133.

750 xii. 1 ff., etc.

751 xx. 7, 11.

752 xvii. 7 f.; p. 54.

753 See above, p. 299.

754 Shortly before his death, Professor A. B. Davidson said to me,
“These prophets were terribly one-idea’d men”—their one idea being
that the Lord was about to do something.

755 ii., iii. _passim_.

756 ii. 31.

757 ii. 8; _Where is the Lord?_

758 i. 12 ff.

759 xxvii. 5.

760 xxii. 7; i. 15; iv. 6; v. 15, etc.

761 xxii. 25 f.; xxiv. 8 ff.; xxv. 9; xxvii. 6; xxxii. 3; xxxiv. 2, 22.

762 xviii. 1-11.

763 i. 9 f.; etc.

764 ii. 9; xii. 1 ff.; xiii. 1; xviii. 1; xix. 1, xxiv. 1 f.; xxvii. 2;
xxxii. 6; xxxv. 2; xxxvi. 2, 28.

765 ii. 5, 11; viii. 19 (?); xiv. 22; xvi. 19, 20; xviii. 15; xxxii. 30
(?), etc. _Bubble_, Hebrew _hebel_, lit. _breath_, usually rendered
_vanity_ by our versions.

766 Deut. iv. 19 reconciles the two by saying that Yahweh had assigned
the gods to their respective nations.

767 Above, pp. 187 ff.; ii. 9, 31 f.; iii. 12, 19; etc.

768 ix. 24; cp. v. 1 ff., etc.

769 vii. 3 ff.; xxvi. 13. See above, pp. 155 ff.

770 xxii. 15 f.

771 ix. 7; cp. ii. 9, 35; v. 7-9, 25.

772 Not from the very earliest; ii. and iii. utter pleadings rather than
condemnations.

773 iii. 1 ff., 20.

774 vi. 11; iv. 8, 26; xxv. 15; xxx. 24 (also, but out of place in
xxiii. 20); cp. xiii. 12-14.

775 ii. 20; iii. 3, 6 ff., 20; xii. 8.

776 iv. 28; v. 7; vii. 16; xi. 14; xv. 1 ff.

777 v. 9, 29; ix. 9; xxi. 7.

778 vi. 15; viii. 12; ix. 15 (xxiii. 15); xv. 7, 8; xiii. 24; xviii. 17;
vi. 26; ix. 11; vii. 15; xxiv. 9, 10.

779 ii. 19; iv. 18; vii. 19; xiii. 22.

780 vi. 27-30; pp. 132 ff.

781 ii. 30, v. 3.

782 ii. 25; xviii. 12; vi. 15; viii. 12; xi. 14; xiv. 11.

783 v. 31; xiii. 25; xviii. 11 ff.; xxiii. 14-17; xxvii. 9; xxviii. 15.

784 iii. 21-25, a vain confession of sin by the people which meets only
with a sterner call from God (iv. 3-4; see pp. 102 f., 107 f.) and
was, as the subsequent years proved, ineffective; cp. xviii. 15.

785 ii. 5, 31, 32.

786 xii. 7-9; ii. 14.

787 xii. 11; cp. Gen. xlviii. 7.

788 xxxi. 20.

789 I shall judge thee for saying “I am guiltless”: ii. 35.

790 Above, pp. 186 ff., 348.

791 ii. 13; xiv. 8; xvii. 13; iii. 12.

792 i. 11 f.; xxxi. 35 f.

793 viii. 7; v. 22 (xxxi. 35); xiv. 22 (after the Greek); cp. iii. 3; v.
24.

794 xxiii. 23 f.; above, p. 256.

795 By Smend.

796 Amos ix. 2 ff.

797 See above, pp. 238-241.

798 xxix. 4-13; cp. vii. 14, 21 ff.; iii. 16; and see above, pp.
143-159.

799 See above, pp. 90 ff.

800 v. 1-5; viii. 8, scribes and wise; and prophets and priests
continually.

801 ix. 4 f.; v. 7 f.; xx. 3 f.; xxii. 13-18; xxxviii. 22; xxviii. 15 f.

802 iii. 2; v. 26; x. 21; xxiii. 31.

803 v. 1.

804 xi. 20; xx. 12.

805 xvii. 9 f.

806 xxiii. 24.

807 xxxi. 29 f.

808 xxvi. 2 f.

809 ix. 24.

810 x. 23.

811 xvii. 7 f.; above, p. 54.

812 See above, pp. 227-229.

813 xii. 3.

814 Above, pp. 293 ff. This was rightly perceived by earlier critics of
last century, Movers, De Wette, Hitzig, etc., who mostly assigned as
a date the end of the exile and read the influence of the Second
Isaiah upon any Jeremian material that the chapters may contain. In
spite of objections by Graf their thesis was reaffirmed and expanded
by Stade (_Gesch. Isr._ i. 643) and by Smend (_Lehrbuch der A.T.
Religionsgeschichte_, 1893), who denied that any part of xxx, xxxi
was from Jeremiah, on grounds both of alleged inconsistencies with
Jeremiah’s teaching, and of the representations of Judah with her
people restored and her cultivation resumed. But since Smend
criticism has been more discriminating; admitting post-exilic
elements and consequently a late age for the whole collection but
reserving for our Prophet various passages: Giesebrecht, xxxi. 2-6,
15-20, 27-34; Duhm, xxx. 12-15, xxxi. 2-6, 15-22_a_; Erbt, xxxi.
2-6, 15-17, 18-20; Cornill, xxxi. 2-5, 9_b_, 15-22_b_, 31-34; J. R.
Gillies, xxxi. 2-6, 15-20, 29 f., 31_b_, 33_b_, 34; Peake, xxxi.
2-6, 15-22, 31-34; Skinner, xxxi. 2-6, 15 f., 18-20, 21 f., 29 f.,
31-34.

815 Above, pp. 36 f., 40-42, 49-52, 91.

816 Above, pp. 40, 91, 142, 145.

817 xi. 1 ff., etc.

818 xxiv. 7.

819 ix. 24; cp. viii. 7_b_, etc.

820 So Greek, Latin and Syriac; Hebrew _though I was an husband to
them_.

821 So one Greek version.

822 So some MSS.

823 So Greek and Latin.

824 Hebrew adds, _Rede of the Lord_.

825 Giesebrecht.