Ezechiel 31:4
The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aquæ nutrierunt illum ; abyssus exaltavit illum : flumina ejus manabant in circuitu radicum ejus, et rivos suos emisit ad universa ligna regionis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὕδωρ ἐξέθρεψεν αὐτόν, ἡ ἄβυσσος ὕψωσεν αὐτόν, τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῆς ἤγαγεν κύκλῳ τῶν φυτῶν αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ συστέματα αὐτῆς ἐξαπέστειλεν ⸆ εἰς πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מַ֣יִם גִּדְּל֔וּהוּ תְּה֖וֹם רֹֽמְמָ֑תְהוּ אֶת נַהֲרֹתֶ֗יהָ הֹלֵךְ֙ סְבִיב֣וֹת מַטָּעָ֔הּ וְאֶת תְּעָלֹתֶ֣יהָ שִׁלְחָ֔ה אֶ֖ל כָּל עֲצֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Roots. Various nations paid tribute to the Assyrian, (St. Jerome; Calmet) while he sent his troops, like rivulets, to keep all in subjection. (Theodoret)
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.