Isaias 51:19
There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Duo sunt quæ occurrerunt tibi ; quis contristabitur super te ? Vastitas, et contritio, et fames, et gladius ; quis consolabitur te ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- δύο ταῦτα ἀντικείμενά σοι· τίς σοι συνλυπηθήσεται; πτῶμα καὶ σύντριμμα, λιμὸς καὶ μάχαιρα· τίς παρακαλέσει σε;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שְׁתַּ֤יִם הֵ֨נָּה֙ קֹֽרְאֹתַ֔יִךְ מִ֖י יָנ֣וּד לָ֑ךְ הַשֹּׁ֧ד וְהַשֶּׁ֛בֶר וְהָרָעָ֥ב וְהַחֶ֖רֶב מִ֥י אֲנַחֲמֵֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Two. War and famine cause desolation and destruction. (Worthington)
Jerusalem was reduced to the greatest misery in the last siege under Nabuchodonosor, Lamentations iv. 3. (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.