Jeremiah 48:1-47 - Exposition

1 . Jeremiah 48:29-38 recur in Isaiah 16:6-10 ; Isaiah 15:4 , Isaiah 15:5 , Isaiah 15:6 ; Isaiah 16:12 , Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 15:2 , Isaiah 15:3 ; not, indeed, without many peculiarities, and those peculiarities are so striking, and so little in harmony with Jeremiah's usual mode of using his predecessor's writings, that some have held that verses 29-38 were inserted by one of Jeremiah's readers.

2 . Verses 43, 44 so closely resemble Isaiah 24:17 , Isaiah 24:18 , and cohere so loosely with the context, that interpolation is a not unreasonable hypothesis.

3 . Verses 45, 46, which are omitted in the Septuagint, are evidently based on Numbers 21:28 , Numbers 21:29 .

4 . Verses 40, 41 closely resemble Jeremiah 49:22 ; the portion corresponding to that passage is omitted in the Septuagint.