Isaias 32:12
Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super ubera plangite, super regione desiderabili, super vinea fertili.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν μαστῶν κόπτεσθε, ἀπὸ ἀγροῦ ἐπιθυμήματος καὶ ἀμπέλου γενήματος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל שָׁדַ֖יִם סֹֽפְדִ֑ים עַל שְׂדֵי חֶ֕מֶד עַל גֶּ֖פֶן פֹּרִיָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Mourn. Septuagint, "beat." (Haydock)
Breasts, suckling infants. In mourning, women beat and uncovered their breasts, which, on any other occasion, would have been deemed very indecent. (Calmet) (Ezechiel xxiii. 34.) (Herodotus ii. 84.)
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.