Ezechiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et vineas et arietes temperabit in muros tuos, et turres tuas destruet in armatura sua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τὰ τείχη σου καὶ τοὺς πύργους σου καταβαλεῖ ἐν ταῖς μαχαίραις αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּמְחִ֣י קָֽבָלּ֔וֹ יִתֵּ֖ן בְּחֹֽמוֹתָ֑יִךְ וּמִ֨גְדְּלֹתַ֔יִךְ יִתֹּ֖ץ בְּחַרְבוֹתָֽיו
Haydock's commentary
Engines. Literally, "vines." (Haydock)
A covert was thus made for the soldiers, (Veget. iv. 15.) when they approached the walls. (Menochius)
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.