The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
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The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
The Chaldeans will return. They will fight against this city, capture it, and burn it.’
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The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
And the Caldeans shall come againe, and fight against this citie, and take it and burne it with fire.
Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away;
and the Chaldeans have turned back, and fought against this city, and captured it, and burnt it with fire.
and the Chaldeans have turned back and fought against this city, and captured it, and burned it with fire.
The Chaldeans will return. They will fight against this city, capture it, and burn it.'
The Chaldeans will return. They will fight against this city, capture it, and burn it.’
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
The Kasdim will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Then the Babylonians will return and attack Jerusalem. They will capture it and burn it down.
And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.
And the Chaldeans shall return, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
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וְשָׁ֨בוּ֙ הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וְנִלְחֲמ֖וּ עַל הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וּלְכָדֻ֖הָ וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָ בָאֵֽשׁ
The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
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In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.
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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וִיתוּבוּן כַּשְׂדָאֵי וִיגִיחוּן קְרָבָא עַל קַרְתָּא הָדָא וְיִכְבְּשׁוּנָהּ וְיוֹקְדוּנָהּ בְּנוּרָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Kasdîy (“Chaldea”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Jeremiah 37:8 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).