Jeremiah 14
Jeremiah 14 is the fourteenth 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.
Text
The original text was written in Hebrew language. [Chapters and verses of the Bible|This Chapters and verses of the Bible|chapter is divided into] 22 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 4‑7.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 14 is a part of the Sixth prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Verse 1
"Drought": is rendered as Droughts in the New King James Version or the "Great Drought" in the New American Bible Revised Edition.Verse 14
The false prophets rely on their own reason and the practice of divination instead of "divine commission".- "A worthless thing" : collectively "kingdoms of idolatrous worthlessness" worshipped in the time of Isaiah.