Ezechiel 29:10
Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Idcirco ecce ego ad te, et ad flumina tua : daboque terram Ægypti in solitudines, gladio dissipatam, a turre Syenes usque ad terminos Æthiopiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς ποταμούς σου, καὶ δώσω γῆν Αἰγύπτου εἰς ἔρημον ῥομφαίαν καὶ ἀπωλίαν, ἀπὸ Μαγδώλου καὶ Συήνης καὶ ἕως ὁρίων Αἰθιόπων.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִ֥י אֵלֶ֖יךָ וְאֶל יְאֹרֶ֑יךָ וְנָתַתִּ֞י אֶת אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֗יִם לְחָרְבוֹת֙ חֹ֣רֶב שְׁמָמָ֔ה מִמִּגְדֹּ֥ל סְוֵנֵ֖ה וְעַד גְּב֥וּל כּֽוּשׁ
Haydock's commentary
Tower; or rather (Calmet) Hebrew and Septuagint, "from Magdol to Syene." (Haydock)
This was on the frontiers of Ethiopia, below the cataracts. (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 9.)
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.