Deuteronomy 33:28
Israel shall dwell in safety, and alone. The eye of Jacob in a land of corn and wine, and the heavens shall be misty with dew.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Habitabit Israël confidenter, et solus. Oculus Jacob in terra frumenti et vini, cælique caligabunt rore.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατασκηνώσει Ἰσραὴλ πεποιθώς, μόνος ἐπὶ γῆς Ἰακώβ· ἐπὶ σίτῳ καὶ οἴνῳ, καὶ ὁ οὐρανός σοι συννεφὴς δρόσῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּשְׁכֹּן֩ יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל בֶּ֤טַח בָּדָד֙ עֵ֣ין יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל אֶ֖רֶץ דָּגָ֣ן וְתִיר֑וֹשׁ אַף שָׁמָ֖יו יַֽעַרְפוּ טָֽל
Haydock's commentary
Alone, without standing in need of the assistance of any other but God. See Numbers xxiii. 9. (Haydock)
Some of the ancient Germans would have no communication with any other nation; and they depopulated the country around, to keep all at a distance. (Calmet)
The Chinese seem to be at present nearly of the same disposition, as well as those who inhabit Japan, &c.
The eye of Jacob. His posterity, by whom he sees the transactions of the world. (Haydock)
Hebrew the fountain, is taken in the same sense. The country which his descendants enjoyed, was well watered with springs, Numbers xxiv. 7.
Dew, it will be so abundant. Chaldean, The heavens will drop down dew, chap. xxxii. 2.
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.