Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut gentes, quas delevit Dominus in introitu tuo, ita et vos peribitis, si inobedientes fueritis voci Domini Dei vestri.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καθὰ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἔθνη ὅσα Κύριος ἀπολλύει πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, οὕτως ἀπολεῖσθε ἀνθ᾽ ὧν οὐκ ἠκούσατε τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ ὑμῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כַּגּוֹיִ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֤ר יְהוָה֙ מַאֲבִ֣יד מִפְּנֵיכֶ֔ם כֵּ֖ן תֹאבֵד֑וּן עֵ֚קֶב לֹ֣א תִשְׁמְע֔וּן בְּק֖וֹל יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Destroyed. Hebrew, "destroys." Some were already subdued, others on the brink of ruin.
Disobedient to. God punished this sin in the most exemplary manner. (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.