Isaias 37:25
I have digged, and drunk water, and have dried up with the sole of my foot, all the rivers shut up in banks.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ego fodi, et bibi aquam, et exsiccavi vestigio pedis mei omnes rivos aggerum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔθηκα γέφυραν, καὶ ἠρήμωσα ὕδατα καὶ πᾶσαν συναγωγὴν ὕδατος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲנִ֥י קַ֖רְתִּי וְשָׁתִ֣יתִי מָ֑יִם וְאַחְרִב֙ בְּכַף פְּעָמַ֔י כֹּ֖ל יְאֹרֵ֥י מָצֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Shut, &c. Hebrew matsor, (Haydock) "of Egypt," where Sennacherib had been. (Calmet)
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 John Cassian The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults, Chapter VIII. How God has destroyed the pride of the devil by the virtue of humility, and various passages in proof of this
And so God, the Creator and Healer of all, knowing that pride is the cause and fountain head of evils, has been careful to heal opposites with opposites, that those things which were ruined by pride might be restored by humility. For the one says, “I will ascend into heaven;” the other, “My soul was brought low even to the ground.” The one says, “And I will be like the most High;” the other, “Though He was in the form of God, yet He emptied Himself and took the form of a servant, and humbled Himself and became obedient unto death.” The one says, “I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;” the other, “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart.” The one says, “I know not the Lord and will not let Israel go;” the other, “If I say that I know Him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know Him, and keep His commandments.” The one says, “My rivers are mine and I made them:” the …
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