Isaias 15:7
According to the greatness of their work, is their visitation also: they shall lead them to the torrent of the willows.
Challoner: Torrent of the willowsThat is, as some say, the waters of Babylon: others render it, a valley of the Arabians.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Secundum magnitudinem operis, et visitatio eorum : ad torrentem Salicum ducent eos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ καὶ οὕτως μέλλει σωθῆναι; ἐπάξω γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν φάραγγα Ἄραβας καὶ λήμψονται αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּפְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ֛ל נַ֥חַל הָעֲרָבִ֖ים יִשָּׂאֽוּם
Haydock's commentary
Willows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon; others render it a valley of the Arabians, (Challoner) or "of crows," to which their bodies will be exposed, chap. lvii. 6.
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.