Ecclesiasticus 43:19
And as the birds lighting upon the earth, he scattereth snow, and the falling thereof, is as the coming down of locusts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et sicut avis deponens ad sedendum, aspergit nivem, et sicut locusta demergens descensus ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Lightning. Greek, "flying, he." (Haydock)
Locusts. "They cover the cornfields with a destructive cloud." (Pliny, [Natural History?] xi. 29.)
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.