151 This couplet is after the Greek, Hebrew has _browsed on thy skull_ for _forced_. Noph = Memphis, Egypt’s capital; Taḥpanḥes = Daphne on the Egyptian road to Palestine. Either 14-19 or more probably 16 alone is one of Jeremiah’s additions to his earlier Oracles after Egypt’s invasion of Palestine in 608. 152 So Greek; Hebrew adds, _when he led thee by the way_. 153 Miṣraim = Egypt. 154 These last four lines follow the Greek. 155 So Duhm by a better division of words. 156 So the Greek. 157 The Hebrew _ḳal_ seems to combine here its two meanings of _swift_ and _trifling_. 158 Hebrew _no’ ash_; with Greek delete the second _no_. 159 So Greek. 160 The insertion (by a copyist?) of this formula rather weakens the connection. 161 So some Versions. 162 Greek adds _and as the number of streets in Jerusalem they burn to Baal_; cp. xi. 13. 163 So Greek. 164 Greek. 165 Greek. 166 Greek _the_. 167 Prose, probably a later insertion when the prophet dictated his Oracles. See pp. 47 f. 168 The text of this quatrain is corrupt, the rendering above makes use of the versions. 169 The text of this verse too is uncertain. For _skirts_ Greek has _hands_; to _innocent_ Hebrew adds _needy_. Some read the second couplet [_though_] _thou did’st not catch them breaking in, but because of all these_, i.e. thy sins against Me, thou did’st murder them. 170 Or _balked_. 171 Greek. 172 Greek; Hebrew _land_. 173 So Duhm after the Greek. Hebrew is impossible. 174 The two Hebrew verbs in this couplet, _naṭar_ and _shamar_ mean _to keep_ (or _maintain_) and _to watch_; they are usually transitive and (in the sense here intended) are followed by a noun, _anger_ or _wrath_, which English versions supply here. But its absence from _both_ the Hebrew and Greek texts leads us to take the verbs as intransitive, as is the case with _naṭar_ in New-Hebrew. 175 Verses 6-18, in prose break the connection both of style and meaning between 5 and 19 and cannot in whole be Jeremiah’s or from his period. This is especially true of 16-18 which assume the destruction of the Ark and the Exile of Judah as well as of Israel as already actual. But the passage probably contains genuine fragments from Jeremiah. 176 So Greek. 177 So one Hebrew MS. and Syriac. 178 Hebrew adds _her sister_. 179 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_. 180 So Greek. 181 Lit. _make not My face to fall_. 182 Greek; Hebrew _ye have_. 183 That is _Lord_ and _Husband_. 184 So Greek. 185 Hebrew adds _to the Name of the Lord to Jerusalem_. 186 So Greek; Hebrew _your_; after _North_ Greek has _and from all lands_. 187 In antithesis to verse 5 of which it is the immediate sequel both in sense and metre.