Isaias 13:19
And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erit Babylon illa gloriosa in regnis, inclyta superbia Chaldæorum, sicut subvertit Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔσται Βαβυλών, ἣ καλεῖται ἔνδοξος ἀπὸ βασιλέως Χαλδαίων, ⸂⸆⸃ ὃν τρόπον κατέστρεψεν ὁ θεὸς Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיְתָ֤ה בָבֶל֙ צְבִ֣י מַמְלָכ֔וֹת תִּפְאֶ֖רֶת גְּא֣וֹן כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֣ת אֱלֹהִ֔ים אֶת סְדֹ֖ם וְאֶת עֲמֹרָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Gomorrha. Towards the end of the Macedonian empire. (Calmet)
The Persians kept wild beasts in it. (St. Jerome)
The palace of Nabuchodonosor subsisted in the days of Benjamin, (Calmet) but could not be approached on account of serpents. (Tudel. p. 70.)
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.