I noticed that the Orthodox Study Bible omits Lamentations 3:22-24 as found in the Hebrew text. These verses are,

"Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed. Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is Your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion says my soul, therefore I hope in Him"

Is this a mistake on the part of the OSB editors or are these verses absent from the Septuagint?

Joe

Joe, I looked at this online version of the Septuagint, and those verses are indeed missing:
http://septuagint.org/LXX/Lamentations/Lamentations3.html

they are also missing from an online edition of Brenton's translation:

http://www.ecmarsh.com/lxx/Lamentations/index.htm

Interesting observation, and puzzling. A quick check shows Rahlf's edition of the LXX missing them but Brenton's edition has them. They are also in Jerome's Vulgate which is a good textual witness to antiquity. Also, see the corroborating information in this link .

What's bothering about them missing is that Lamentations is arranged as an acrostic of the ordered 22-letter Hebrew alphabet, the verses 3:22-25 being the section of chapter 3 beginning with the letter ח (heth), the 8th letter of the 22, just about smack in the middle. Their absence, though witnessed in the most ancient extant manuscripts, leaves a hole that, I would think, begs to be filled.

Thanks guys for your help! I have to confess that problems like these lead me to question the idea that there is one "official" text.

Joe

In the Introduction to the OSB the editors indicate that they used Rahlfs' text, though they consulted Brenton's. This would explain the choice to exclude those verses in the OSB.

I wonder if those verses are included in the official text used by Constantinople.

Joe