Isaias 1:30
When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- cum fueritis velut quercus defluentibus foliis, et velut hortus absque aqua.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔσονται γὰρ ὡς τερέβινθος ἀποβεβληκυῖα τὰ φύλλα, καὶ ὡς παράδεισος ὕδωρ μὴ ἔχων·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י תִֽהְי֔וּ כְּאֵלָ֖ה נֹבֶ֣לֶת עָלֶ֑הָ וּֽכְגַנָּ֔ה אֲשֶׁר מַ֖יִם אֵ֥ין לָֽהּ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily II
3. Aforetime there was nothing happier than our city; nothing more melancholy than it is now become. As bees buzzing around their hive, so before this the inhabitants every day flitted about the forum, and all pronounced us happy in being so numerous. But behold now, this hive hath become solitary! For even as smoke does those bees, so fear hath driven away our swarms; and what the prophet says, bewailing Jerusalem, we may fitly say now, “Our city is become ‘like a terebinth that hath lost its leaves, and as a garden that hath no water.’” For in like manner as a garden when its irrigation fails, exhibits the trees stripped of their leaves, and bare of their fruits, so has it now fared with our city. For the help from above having forsaken her, she stands desolate stripped of almost all her inhabitants.