Isaias 10:9
Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Numquid non principes mei simul reges sunt ? numquid non ut Charcamis, sic Calano ? et ut Arphad, sic Emath ? numquid non ut Damascus, sic Samaria ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐρεῖ Οὐκ ἔλαβον τὴν χώραν τὴν ἐπάνω Βαβυλῶνος καὶ Χαλαννή, οὗ ὁ πύργος ᾠκοδομήθη; καὶ ἔλαβον Ἀραβίαν καὶ Δαμασκὸν καὶ Σαμάρειαν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם לֹ֤א כְאַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם לֹ֥א כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
As. Literally, "altogether kings." (Haydock)
Thus Nabuchodonosor kept the conquered princes for derision, Habacuc i. 10., and Judges i. 7.
Arphad, Arad, or rather Raphanæ, Jeremias xlix. 23.
Damascus. These two cities were not yet subdued.
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.