Jeremiah 31:35-37

Many hold these vv. to be by a writer of later date than Jeremiah, because (a) the vehemence of their national tone exceeds the prophet's ordinary form of expression, (b) they present a good many points of contact with 2 Isaiah (Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 44:24 ff; Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 45:18; Isaiah 54:9 f.), (c) Jeremiah 31:37 at any rate seems to have been a marginal gloss, the LXX placing it before Jeremiah 31:35, (d) the style is unmetrical, (e) they can hardly have been spoken by Jeremiah as his climax to the prophecy of the New Covenant. Obviously, however, they might still be a genuine fragment inserted here from another context. On the whole the case remains doubtful.