Isaias 30:16
But have said: No, but we will flee to horses: therefore shall you flee. And we will mount upon swift ones: therefore shall they be swifter that shall pursue after you.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et dixistis : Nequaquam, sed ad equos fugiemus : ideo fugietis ; et : Super veloces ascendemus : ideo velociores erunt qui persequentur vos.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀλλ᾽ εἴπατε Ἐφ᾽ ἵππων φευξόμεθα· διὰ τοῦτο φεύξεσθε· καὶ ἐπὶ κούφοις ἀναβάταις ἐσόμεθα· διὰ τοῦτο κοῦφοι ἔσονται οἱ διώκοντες ὑμᾶς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתֹּ֨אמְר֥וּ לֹא כִ֛י עַל ס֥וּס נָנ֖וּס עַל כֵּ֣ן תְּנוּס֑וּן וְעַל קַ֣ל נִרְכָּ֔ב עַל כֵּ֖ן יִקַּ֥לּוּ רֹדְפֵיכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Ones, or chariots. (Calmet)
Egypt was famous for horses, Deuteronomy xvii. 16. (Forcr.[Forerius?])
Rebsaces ridicules the Jews for the want of them, 4 Kings xviii. 23. (Haydock)
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.