Isaias 62:8
The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Juravit Dominus in dextera sua, et in brachio fortitudinis suæ : Si dedero triticum tuum ultra cibum inimicis tuis ; et si biberint filii alieni vinum tuum in quo laborasti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὤμοσεν Κύριος κατὰ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ καὶ κατὰ τῆς ἰσχύος τοῦ βραχίονος αὐτοῦ Εἰ ἔτι δώσω τὸν σῖτόν σου καὶ τὰ βρώματα τοῖς ἐχθροῖς σου, καὶ εἰ ἔτι πίονται υἱοὶ ἀλλότριοι τὸν οἶνόν σου ἐφ᾽ ᾧ ἐμόχθησας·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- נִשְׁבַּ֧ע יְהוָ֛ה בִּֽימִינ֖וֹ וּבִזְר֣וֹעַ עֻזּ֑וֹ אִם אֶתֵּן֩ אֶת דְּגָנֵ֨ךְ ע֤וֹד מַֽאֲכָל֙ לְאֹ֣יְבַ֔יִךְ וְאִם יִשְׁתּ֤וּ בְנֵֽי נֵכָר֙ תִּֽירוֹשֵׁ֔ךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָגַ֖עַתְּ בּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Hand; inviolably, Deuteronomy xxxii. 40. The Persians deemed this oath most sacred. (Calmet)
Darius, just expiring, said to Polycrates, "By thee I give this right hand to Alexander," (Plut.[Plutarch?]) that he may revenge my death.
Wine. The Church cannot be deprived of her faith or of her God.
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.