Jeremiah 23:10

Of the two clauses containing the words "the land," the first is probably a corruption of the second, as accidentally repeated by a copyist, or as a gloss on a blurred text, suggested perhaps by Jeremiah 23:14. It is not found in LXX, while Gi. would further omit "the pastures … dried up."

adulterers either literally, or in the secondary sense of idolatry. Cp. Jeremiah 3:8 f.

swearing better, with mg. the curse, viz. the drought described in the next clause, if this last be not (so Gi.) an insertion, suggested perhaps by Jeremiah 12:4. The LXX, however, without any change in the Heb. consonants, vocalised the word as these things.

course lit. running.