Ezechiel 32:8
I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee: and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnia luminaria cæli mœrere faciam super te, et dabo tenebras super terram tuam, dicit Dominus Deus, cum ceciderint vulnerati tui in medio terræ, ait Dominus Deus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πάντα τὰ φαίνοντα φῶς ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ συσκοτάσουσιν ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ δώσω σκότος ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, λέγει κύριος Κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּל מְא֤וֹרֵי אוֹר֙ בַּשָּׁמַ֔יִם אַקְדִּירֵ֖ם עָלֶ֑יךָ וְנָתַ֤תִּי חֹ֨שֶׁךְ֙ עַֽל אַרְצְךָ֔ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה
Haydock's commentary
On verses 7 to 8
Out, like a candle, by death; extinctus. (Haydock)
The glory of Egypt was so great, that at its fall the light of heaven seemed diminished. (Worthington)
Great desolation is thus intimated.
When, &c., is not in some Latin copies, nor in Hebrew, &c. (Calmet)
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.