Isaias 51:23
And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et ponam illum in manu eorum qui te humiliaverunt, et dixerunt animæ tuæ : Incurvare, ut transeamus ; et posuisti ut terram corpus tuum, et quasi viam transeuntibus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ δώσω αὐτὸ εἰς τὰς χεῖρας τῶν ἀδικησάντων σε τῶν ταπεινωσάντων σε, οἳ εἶπαν τῇ ψυχῇ σου Κύψον, ἵνα παρέλθωμεν· καὶ ἔθηκας ἴσα τῇ γῇ τὰ μέσα σου ἔξω τοῖς παραπορευομένοις.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשַׂמְתִּ֨יהָ֙ בְּיַד מוֹגַ֔יִךְ אֲשֶׁר אָמְר֥וּ לְנַפְשֵׁ֖ךְ שְׁחִ֣י וְנַעֲבֹ֑רָה וַתָּשִׂ֤ימִי כָאָ֨רֶץ֙ גֵּוֵ֔ךְ וְכַח֖וּץ לַעֹבְרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Over. This inhumanity was not uncommon, Josue x. 24., and Psalm cix. 1.
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
Eusebius The Church History of Eusebius, Panegyric on the Splendor of Affairs
50. ‘Awake, awake, thou who hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; for thou hast drunk the cup of ruin, the vessel of my wrath, and hast drained it. And there was none to console thee of all thy sons whom thou didst bring forth, and there was none to take thee by the hand.’ ‘Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of ruin, the vessel of my fury, and thou shalt no longer drink it. And I will put it into the hands of them that have treated thee unjustly and have humbled thee.’