Ecclesiasticus 49:8
They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Incenderunt electam sanctitatis civitatem, et desertas fecerunt vias ipsius in manu Jeremiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
Holiness. Jerusalem, which was styled holy, in the sicles of Simon.
Desolate. No one came to the festivals, Lamentations i. 4.
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.