634 Above, pp. 149 f., 152, 155 ff. 635 Duhm emends to _on the top of the hills_. 636 So Greek and Targ. 637 So Greek. _ 638 Ibid._ 639 So Greek. 640 It is singular how each of these three verses contains not four but five lines. Cornill, by using the introduction _Thus saith the Lord_, omitting _the remnant of Israel_, combining two pairs of lines and including the following couplet, effects the arrangement of octastichs to which he has throughout the book arbitrarily committed himself. Duhm has another metrical arrangement. 641 Or _coasts_. 642 Lit. _they stream upon_, A.V. _flow together_; but the verb is to be taken in the same sense as in Ps. xxxiv. 5 _were lightened_ and in Is. lx. 5, R.V. It is the liquid rippling light, thrown up on the face from water. 643 So Greek. 644 Hebrew adds _and will comfort them_. _ 645 Richly_ lit. _with fat_, which Greek omits but to _priests_ adds _the sons of Levi_, an instance of how ready later hands have been to add prose glosses to the poetry. 646 1 Sam. x. 2. 647 See above pp. 46 f. 648 Hebrew and some versions add _for her children_. 649 Greek has not the first line of this couplet, and reads differently the second. The whole seems a needless variant or paraphrase of 16. 650 Or _turned to_ (?). Greek reads _after my captivity_. 651 Some would read _was chastised_. 652 Still have that on my conscience; there is no need to doubt this line in whole or part as some do. 653 After all that has passed! _ 654 Compass_ or _change to_ (?) This couplet has been the despair of commentators. Its exilic terms, _created_ and _female_, relieve us of it. 655 Hebrew adds _of hosts, God of Israel_. 656 Hebrew and Greek add _holy mount_, a late term and here irrelevant, for it is _all_ Judah that is described. 657 Greek _each_. 658 Doubtful. Jeremiah had nothing to do with dreams as means of prophecy. 659 Hebrew adds to each _the house of_. 660 Hebrew adds from i. 10 (_q.v._), _pluck up, break down and destroy_. 661 As Dr. Skinner says, “it was only by way of the eternal world that Jeremiah could enter on the fruition of his hopes.” 662 “That atrocious brigand” (Renan). _ 663 The folds of_, as Aquila shows that we should read Hebrew _Geruth_. 664 For the above see ch. xli, continuing from xl what is no doubt Baruch’s account. 665 So ch. xlii. This and xli are substantially the same in Hebrew and Greek, the Greek as usual omitting the repetitions of the Divine Titles and of the names of the fathers of the actors, and a few other expansions; and suggesting, as Syriac and Vulg. also do, some minor corrections. 666 xxiv. 1 ff.