Ezechiel 36:5
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of the rest of the nations, and of all Edom, who have taken my land to themselves, for an inheritance with joy, and with all the heart, and with the mind: and have cast it out to lay it waste.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus : Quoniam in igne zeli mei locutus sum de reliquis gentibus, et de Idumæa universa, quæ dederunt terram meam sibi in hæreditatem cum gaudio, et toto corde et ex animo, et ejecerunt eam ut vastarent :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος Κύριος Εἰ μὴν ἐν πυρὶ θυμοῦ μου ἐλάλησα ἐπὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ἔθνη καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν πᾶσαν, ὅτι ἔδωκαν τὴν γῆν μου ἑαυτοῖς εἰς κατάσχεσιν μετ᾽ εὐφροσύνης, ἀτιμάσαντες ψυχὰς τοῦ ἀφανίσαι ἐν προνομῇ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒ אִם לֹ֠א בְּאֵ֨שׁ קִנְאָתִ֥י דִבַּ֛רְתִּי עַל שְׁאֵרִ֥ית הַגּוֹיִ֖ם וְעַל אֱד֣וֹם כֻּלָּ֑א אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתְנֽוּ אֶת אַרְצִ֣י לָ֠הֶם לְמ֨וֹרָשָׁ֜ה בְּשִׂמְחַ֤ת כָּל לֵבָב֙ בִּשְׁאָ֣ט נֶ֔פֶשׁ לְמַ֥עַן מִגְרָשָׁ֖הּ לָבַֽז
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How those are to be admonished with whom everything succeeds according to their wish, and those with whom nothing does
( Admonition 27.) Differently to be admonished are those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters, and those who covet indeed the things that are of this world, but yet are wearied with the labour of adversity. For those who prosper in what they desire in temporal matters are to be admonished, when all things answer to their wishes, lest, through fixing their heart on what is given, they neglect to seek the giver; lest they love their pilgrimage instead of their country; lest they turn the supplies for their journey into hindrances to their arrival at its end; lest, delighted with the light of the moon by night, they shrink from beholding the clearness of the sun. …