Jeremias 18:17
As a burning will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut ventus urens dispergam eos coram inimico : dorsum, et non faciem, ostendam eis in die perditionis eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς ἄνεμον καύσωνα διασπερῶ αὐτοὺς κατὰ πρόσωπον ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν, δείξω αὐτοῖς ἡμέραν ἀπωλείας αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כְּרֽוּחַ קָדִ֥ים אֲפִיצֵ֖ם לִפְנֵ֣י אוֹיֵ֑ב עֹ֧רֶף וְלֹֽא פָנִ֛ים אֶרְאֵ֖ם בְּי֥וֹם אֵידָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Burning. Hebrew kadim, "eastern," (Haydock) coming from Desert Arabia, Exodus x. 13. (Calmet)
Back. Thus the Lord now treats the synagogue. (St. Jerome)
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.