Isaias 44:27
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui dico profundo : Desolare, et flumina tua arefaciam ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ λέγων τῇ ἀβύσσῳ Ἐρημωθήσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ποταμούς σου ξηρανῶ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הָאֹמֵ֥ר לַצּוּלָ֖ה חֳרָ֑בִי וְנַהֲרֹתַ֖יִךְ אוֹבִֽישׁ
Haydock's commentary
Deep. Babylon, situated amid waters, chap. xxi. 1. (Calmet)
Rivers, as Cyrus did. (Herodotus i. 191.)
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 Basil The Hexæmeron, On the Firmament
However, a time will come, when all shall be consumed by fire; as Isaiah says of the God of the universe in these words, “That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers.” Reject then the foolish wisdom of this world, and receive with me the more simple but infallible doctrine of truth.