then shall there enter Prosperity, permanence, and religious devotion shall be the three characteristic features of the Jewish State, if only they will hallow the Sabbath.

and princes a virtually certain example of a pre-Septuagintal insertion. Its spuriousness is shewn by the words "their princes," which follow. The insertion has been suggested doubtless by parallel passages (Jeremiah 2:26; Jeremiah 25:18; Jeremiah 32:32; Jeremiah 44:17; Jeremiah 44:21). Cp. on the other hand (for absence of the addition) Jeremiah 13:13; Jeremiah 22:4.

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