Jeremiah 18 Explained

Jeremiah 18 is the eighteenth 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 fourth of the passages known as the "Confessions of Jeremiah" (2 Jeremiah).^[1]

Text

The original text of this chapter is written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 23 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 (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJer^a (4Q70; 225-175 BCE^{[2] [3]}) with extant verses 15–23.^{[4] [5]}

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 (B;

ak{G} ^B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: ak{G} ^S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ak{G} ^A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; ak{G} ^Q; 6th century).

Parashot

The parashah (plural parashot) sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.^[6] Jeremiah 18 is a part of the Seventh prophecy (Jeremiah 18-20) in the section of Prophecies of Destruction (Jeremiah 1-25). : open parashah; : closed parashah.

18:1-4 18:5-6 18:7-8 18:9-10 18:11-12 18:13-17 18:18-23

Verse 6

"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?" says the Lord.

"Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel!^[7]

• God as the potter and Israel as the clay "underscores God's complete control" (2 Isaiah; 2 Isaiah).^[8]

See also

• Clay
• Israel
• Jeremiah
• Jerusalem
• Judah
• Pottery

• Related Bible parts: Isaiah 29, Isaiah 45, Isaiah 64, Romans 9, Romans 11

Bibliography

• Book: The Nelson Study Bible. 1997. Thomas Nelson, Inc. . 9780840715999.
• Book: Ulrich. Eugene. The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. 2010. Brill.
• Book: Würthwein, Ernst . Ernst Würthwein . The Text of the Old Testament . Wm. B. Eerdmans . Grand Rapids, MI . 1995 . Erroll F.. Rhodes . 0-8028-0788-7 . January 26, 2019.

External links

Jewish

• Jeremiah 18 Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Jeremiah 18 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate

Notes and References

1. Diamond, A. R. (1987), The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context, JSOTSup 45, Sheffield
2. Cross, F.M. apud Freedman, D.N.; Mathews, K.A. (1985). The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev). Winona Lake, Indiana. p. 55
3. Book: Sweeney , Marvin A. . Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature. 45. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 0940-4155. reprint. Wipf and Stock Publishers. 2010. 66. 9781608994182.
4. Book: Fitzmyer, Joseph A.. A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Joseph Fitzmyer . William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2008 . 37 . 9780802862419 . Grand Rapids, MI . February 15, 2019.
5. Book: Ulrich . Eugene . Eugene Ulrich . The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants . 2010 . 568 . Brill . May 15, 2017 . 9789004181830.
6. As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
7. 2 Jeremiah
8. Book: Coogan , Michael David . The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48. Coogan. Michael David . Marc Zvi. Brettler. Carol Ann. Newsom. Pheme. Perkins. Augmented 3rd. Oxford University Press. 2007. 9780195288810. 1107–1108 Hebrew Bible.