Isaias 62:6
Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super muros tuos, Jerusalem, constitui custodes ; tota die et tota nocte in perpetuum non tacebunt. Qui reminiscimini Domini, ne taceatis,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν τειχῶν σου, Ἰερουσαλήμ, κατέστησα φύλακας ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν καὶ ὅλην τὴν νύκτα, οἳ διὰ τέλους οὐ σιωπήσονται μιμνησκόμενοι Κυρίου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל חוֹמֹתַ֣יִךְ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הִפְקַ֨דְתִּי֙ שֹֽׁמְרִ֔ים כָּל הַיּ֧וֹם וְכָל הַלַּ֛יְלָה תָּמִ֖יד לֹ֣א יֶחֱשׁ֑וּ הַמַּזְכִּרִים֙ אֶת יְהוָ֔ה אַל דֳּמִ֖י לָכֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Watchmen; priests and prophets, (Matthew ii. 1., and Psalm cxxxiii. 2.; Calmet) or angels. (St. Jerome; St. Bernard)
The synagogue has been long destitute of guides, but the Catholic Church has an uninterrupted succession of watchful pastors.
Mindful whose duty it is to remind him of his promises, and to recite the Church office. (Calmet)
Hebrew mazcirim, monitors, 2 Kings viii. 16. (Haydock)
In these faithful watchman the Church is always visible. (Worthington)
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 Gregory Nazianzen On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
17. Only let us recognise the purpose of the evil. Why have the crops withered, our storehouses been emptied, the pastures of our flocks failed, the fruits of the earth been withheld, and the plains been filled with shame instead of with fatness: why have valleys lamented and not abounded in corn, the mountains not dropped sweetness, as they shall do hereafter to the righteous, but been stript and dishonoured, and received on the contrary the curse of Gilboa? The whole earth has become as it was in the beginning, before it was adorned with its beauties. Thou visitedst the earth, and madest it to drink, but the visitation has been for evil, and the draught destructive. …