Deuteronomy 30:4
If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence,
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si ad cardines cæli fueris dissipatus, inde te retrahet Dominus Deus tuus,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν ᾖ ἡ διασπορά σου ἀπ᾽ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἕως ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἐκεῖθεν συνάξει σε Κύριος ὁ θεός σου, καὶ ἐκεῖθεν λήμψεταί σε Κύριος ὁ θεός σου·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אִם יִהְיֶ֥ה נִֽדַּחֲךָ֖ בִּקְצֵ֣ה הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם מִשָּׁ֗ם יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וּמִשָּׁ֖ם יִקָּחֶֽךָ
Haydock's commentary
Poles. The arctic and antarctic, the northern and southern poles; that is, into the most distant regions. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "the end of heaven," where it seems to rest upon the earth. (Calmet)
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.