Ezechiel 22:16
And I will possess thee in the sight of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et possidebo te in conspectu gentium : et scies quia ego Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ κατακληρονομήσω ἐν σοὶ κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμοὺς τῶν ἐθνῶν, καὶ γνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ Κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְנִחַ֥לְתְּ בָּ֖ךְ לְעֵינֵ֣י גוֹיִ֑ם וְיָדַ֖עַתְּ כִּֽי אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Possess, "as an inheritance:" (Septuagint; Haydock) "I will defile:" (Aquila) "wound thee." (Symmachus) Hebrew is very different: (Calmet) "thou hast inherited in thyself," (Haydock) being no longer willing to be subject.
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.