Ezechiel 16:42
And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et requiescet indignatio mea in te, et auferetur zelus meus a te : et quiescam, nec irascar amplius.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπαφήσω τὸν θυμόν μου ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ ἐξαρθήσεται ὁ ζῆλός μου ἐκ σοῦ· καὶ ἀναπαύσομαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ μεριμνήσω οὐκέτι.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַהֲנִחֹתִ֤י חֲמָתִי֙ בָּ֔ךְ וְסָ֥רָה קִנְאָתִ֖י מִמֵּ֑ךְ וְשָׁ֣קַטְתִּ֔י וְלֹ֥א אֶכְעַ֖ס עֽוֹד
Haydock's commentary
No more. I will entirely repudiate thee, so as to observe thy conduct no longer, (Calmet) with the eyes of an husband. (Haydock)
This is the most terrible effect of God's wrath, (Calmet) when the sinner is left to himself, Osee iv. 14. (St. Jerome)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily XXIII on Rom. xiii. 1
Observe how it has both virtues, abstinence from evils (for it “worketh no ill,” he says), and the working of good deeds. “For it is,” he says, “the fulfilling (or filling up) of the Law;” not bringing before us instruction only on moral duties in a concise form, but making the accomplishment of them easy also. For that we should become acquainted with things profitable to us was not all that he was careful for (which is the Law’s care), but also with a view to the doing of them it brought us great assistance; accomplishing not some part of the commandments, but the whole sum of virtue in us. Let us then love one another, since in this way we shall also love God, Who loveth us. For in the case of men, if you love a man’s beloved, he that loveth him is contentious at it. But here He deemeth thee worthy to share His love, and hateth thee when thou sharest not. …
St John Cassian The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X, Chapter XI. Of the two kinds of trials, which come upon us in a three-fold way
Well then, though we say that trial is twofold, i.e., in prosperity and in adversity, yet you must know that all men are tried in three different ways. Often for their probation, sometimes for their improvement, and in some cases because their sins deserve it. For their probation indeed, as we read that the blessed Abraham and Job and many of the saints endured countless tribulations; or this which is said to the people in Deuteronomy by Moses: “And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep His Commandments or no:” and this which we find in the Psalms: “I proved thee at the waters of strife.” To Job also: “Thinkest thou that I have spoken for any other cause than that thou mightest be seen t …