Daniel 3:72
O ye light and darkness, bless the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Benedicite, lux et tenebræ, Domino : laudate et superexaltate eum in sæcula.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Daniel 3:68
- εὐλογεῖτε, φῶς καὶ σκότος, τὸν κύριον· ὑμνεῖτε καὶ ὑπερυψοῦτε αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- The Hebrew Daniel has no such verse: the prayer of Azarias and the song of the three children are in the Greek alone.
Haydock's commentary
Darkness. The privation of light has its use, and invites men to praise. (St. Augustine, de Nat. Boni. 16.) (Worthington)
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.