Isaias 44:4
And they shall spring up among the herbs, as willows beside the running waters.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et germinabunt inter herbas, quasi salices juxta præterfluentes aquas.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀνατελοῦσιν ὡς ἀνὰ μέσον ὕδατος χόρτος, καὶ ὡς ἰτέα ἐπὶ παραρρέον ὕδωρ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְצָמְח֖וּ בְּבֵ֣ין חָצִ֑יר כַּעֲרָבִ֖ים עַל יִבְלֵי מָֽיִם
The Fathers on this verse
St Methodius The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity, Chapter III
But not to pass away from our subject, come, let us take in our hands and examine this psalm, which the pure and stainless souls sing to God, saying: “By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down; yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof,” clearly giving the name of harps to their bodies which they hung upon the branches of chastity, fastening them to the wood that they might not be snatched away and dragged along again by the stream of incontinence. For Babylon, which is interpreted “disturbance” or “confusion,” signifies this life around which the water flows, while we sit in the midst of which the water flows round us, as long as we are in the world, the rivers of evil always beating upon us. …