4 Kings 9:22
And when Joram saw Jehu, he said: Is there peace, Jehu? And he answered: What peace? so long as the fornications of Jezabel thy mother, and her many sorceries are in their vigour.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque vidisset Joram Jehu, dixit : Pax est, Jehu ? At ille respondit : Quæ pax ? adhuc fornicationes Jezabel matris tuæ, et veneficia ejus multa, vigent.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς εἶδεν Ἰωρὰμ τὸν Εἰού, καὶ εἶπεν Ἦ εἰρήνη, Εἰού; καὶ εἶπεν Εἰού Τί εἰρήνη; ἔτι αἱ πορνεῖαι Ἰεζάβελ τῆς μητρός σου καὶ τὰ φάρμακα αὐτῆς τὰ πολλά.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְהִ֗י כִּרְא֤וֹת יְהוֹרָם֙ אֶת יֵה֔וּא וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הֲשָׁל֣וֹם יֵה֑וּא וַיֹּ֨אמֶר֙ מָ֣ה הַשָּׁל֔וֹם עַד זְנוּנֵ֞י אִיזֶ֧בֶל אִמְּךָ֛ וּכְשָׁפֶ֖יהָ הָרַבִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Jehu? The king supposed that he had meet with some defeat, (Calmet) or that he wished to announce the good tidings in person. (Menochius) (Salien, the year before Christ 902.)
Vigour? How can Israel prosper? (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.