Isaias 15:5
My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cor meum ad Moab clamabit ; vectes ejus usque ad Segor, vitulam conternantem ; per ascensum enim Luith flens ascendet, et in via Oronaim clamorem contritionis levabunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἡ καρδία τῆς Μωαβείτιδος βοᾷ ἐν αὐτῇ ἕως Σήγωρ· δάμαλις γάρ ἐστιν τριετής, ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς ἀναβάσεως Λουεὶθ πρὸς σὲ κλαίοντες ἀναβήσονται τῇ ὁδῷ Ἁρωνιείμ· βοᾷ σύντριμμα καὶ σεισμὸς,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לִבִּי֙ לְמוֹאָ֣ב יִזְעָ֔ק בְּרִיחֶ֕הָ עַד צֹ֖עַר עֶגְלַ֣ת שְׁלִשִׁיָּ֑ה כִּ֣י מַעֲלֵ֣ה הַלּוּחִ֗ית בִּבְכִי֙ יַֽעֲלֶה בּ֔וֹ כִּ֚י דֶּ֣רֶךְ חוֹרֹנַ֔יִם זַעֲקַת שֶׁ֖בֶר יְעֹעֵֽרוּ
Haydock's commentary
My. A charitable heart will grieve for the misfortune of an enemy. (Worthington)
I shall join in the general lamentations, though Moab has always been so great an enemy of Israel. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "the heart of Moab cries in itself to Segor." (Haydock)
We will retire thither. (Chaldean)
Bars. Princes. Protestants, "his fugitives shall," &c.
Heifer. Strong and ungovernable. Hebrew, "to Heglath and to Shelishia for," &c., though we may as well adhere to the Vulgate, Septuagint, &c.
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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Eustochium
11. Then immediately quickening her pace she began to move along the old road which leads to Gaza, that is to the ‘power’ or ‘wealth’ of God, silently meditating on that type of the Gentiles, the Ethiopian eunuch, who in spite of the prophet changed his skin and whilst he read the old testament found the fountain of the gospel. Next turning to the right she passed from Bethzur to Eshcol which means “a cluster of grapes.” It was hence that the spies brought back that marvellous cluster which was the proof of the fertility of the land and a type of Him who says of Himself: “I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the people there was none with me.” Shortly afterwards she entered the home of Sarah and beheld the birthplace of Isaac and the traces of Abraham’s oak under which he saw Christ’s day and was glad. …