Ezechiel 20:46
Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.
Challoner: Of the southJerusalem lay towards the south of Babylon, (where the prophet then was,) and is here called the forest of the south field, and is threatened with utter desolation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Fili hominis, pone faciem tuam contra viam austri, et stilla ad africum, et propheta ad saltum agri meridiani.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, στήρισον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπὶ Θαιμὰν καὶ ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ Δαγὼν καὶ προφήτευσον ἐπὶ δρυμὸν ἡγούμενον Νάγεβ,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Ezechiel 21:2
- בֶּן אָדָ֗ם שִׂ֤ים פָּנֶ֨יךָ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ תֵּימָ֔נָה וְהַטֵּ֖ף אֶל דָּר֑וֹם וְהִנָּבֵ֛א אֶל יַ֥עַר הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה נֶֽגֶב
Haydock's commentary
Of the south. Jerusalem lay towards the south of Babylon, where the prophet then was, and is here called the forest of the south field, and is threatened with utter desolation. (Challoner) See chap. xxi. (Calmet)
In Jerusalem there were good and bad. (Worthington)
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.