Letter of Jeremiah 1:8

7 translations of 23 that include the deuterocanon

Brenton English Septuagint

As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with gold; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

LXX2012 U. S. English

As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.

British English Septuagint 2012

As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and can’t speak.

Updated Brenton English Septuagint

As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with gold; yet are they but false, and cannot speak.

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019

A hmuila te kutthai loh a picai pah, a soah sui neh cak neh a boh thil. Tedae te rhoek te a hong ni, a cal thai moenih.

SEPTUAGINTA

καὶ ὥσπερ παρθένῳ φιλοκόσμῳ λαμβάνοντες χρυσίον κατασκευάζουσι στεφάνους ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς τῶν θεῶν αὐτῶν·

Brenton Septuagint

Γλῶσσα γὰρ αὐτῶν ἐστι κατεξυσμένη ὑπὸ τέκτονος, αὐτά τε περίχρυσα καὶ περιάργυρα, ψευδῆ δʼ ἐστὶ, καὶ οὐ δύνανται λαλεῖν.

When was this written?

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 300 BC–100 BC Anonymous
A Greek fragment from Qumran gives a terminus before 100 BC.

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Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (300 BC–100 BC).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
322 BC–185 BC The Mauryan empire India
The first empire to unite most of the Indian subcontinent.
300 BC Euclid's Elements Egypt
A geometry textbook still in use two thousand years later.
287 BC–212 BC Archimedes of Syracuse Greece
Mathematician and engineer, killed when Rome took Syracuse.
264 BC–146 BC Punic wars Rome
Rome defeated Carthage in three wars, becoming the dominant western Mediterranean power.
221 BC–206 BC Qin unification of China China
China was unified under its first emperor; writing, weights and measures were standardised.
167 BC–160 BC Maccabean revolt Levant
Judean resistance to Seleucid suppression of Jewish practice, producing a period of independence under the Hasmoneans.

Letter of Jeremiah 1:8

Brenton English Septuagint ☆

LXX2012 U. S. English ☆

British English Septuagint 2012 ☆

Updated Brenton English Septuagint ☆

Matupi Chin Standard Bible 2019 ☆

SEPTUAGINTA ☆

Brenton Septuagint ☆