Isaias 21:6
For thus hath the Lord said to me: Go, and set a watchman: and whatsoever he shall see, let him tell.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc enim dixit mihi Dominus : Vade, et pone speculatorem, et quodcumque viderit annuntiet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι οὕτως εἶπεν πρὸς μὲ Κύριος Βαδίσας σεαυτῷ στῆσον σκοπόν, καὶ ὃ ἂν ἴδῃς ἀνάγγειλον.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י כֹ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֵלַ֖י אֲדֹנָ֑י לֵ֚ךְ הַעֲמֵ֣ד הַֽמְצַפֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִרְאֶ֖ה יַגִּֽיד
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
17. Only let us recognise the purpose of the evil. Why have the crops withered, our storehouses been emptied, the pastures of our flocks failed, the fruits of the earth been withheld, and the plains been filled with shame instead of with fatness: why have valleys lamented and not abounded in corn, the mountains not dropped sweetness, as they shall do hereafter to the righteous, but been stript and dishonoured, and received on the contrary the curse of Gilboa? The whole earth has become as it was in the beginning, before it was adorned with its beauties. Thou visitedst the earth, and madest it to drink, but the visitation has been for evil, and the draught destructive. …