Isaias 28:22
And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et nunc nolite illudere, ne forte constringantur vincula vestra ; consummationem enim et abbreviationem audivi a Domino Deo exercituum, super universam terram.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὑμεῖς μὴ εὐφρανθείητε, μηδὲ ἰσχυσάτωσαν ὑμῶν οἱ δεσμοί· διότι συντετελεσμένα καὶ συντετμημένα πράγματα ἤκουσα παρὰ Κυρίου σαβαὼθ ἃ ποιήσει ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעַתָּה֙ אַל תִּתְלוֹצָ֔צוּ פֶּֽן יֶחְזְק֖וּ מֽוֹסְרֵיכֶ֑ם כִּֽי כָלָ֨ה וְנֶחֱרָצָ֜ה שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי מֵאֵ֨ת אֲדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת עַל כָּל הָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
Earth. Nabuchodonosor will take a complete and speedy vengeance, chap. x. 22.
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 Augustine Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John, Chapter IV. 1-18
7. Therefore let us now see the sacred mystery whereby this impotent man is healed by the Lord. The Lord Himself came, the Teacher of love, full of love, “shortening,” as it was predicted of Him, “the word upon the earth,” and showed that the law and the prophets hang on two precepts of love. Upon these hung Moses with his number forty, upon these Elias with his; and the Lord brought in this number in His testimony. This impotent man is healed by the Lord in person; but before healing him, what does He say to him? “Wilt thou be made whole?” The man answered that he had not a man to put him into the pool. Truly he had need of a “man” to his healing, but that “man” one who is also God. …