Jeremias 21:13
Behold I come to thee that dwellest in a valley upon a rock above a plain, saith the Lord: and you say: Who shall strike us? and who shall enter into our houses?
Challoner: To thee that dwellestHe speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ecce ego ad te, habitatricem vallis solidæ atque campestris, ait Dominus : qui dicitis : Quis percutiet nos ? et quis ingredietur domos nostras ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς σὲ τὸν κατοικοῦντα τὴν κοιλάδα Σὸρ τὴν πεδινήν, τοὺς λέγοντας Τίς πτοήσει ἡμᾶς; ἢ τίς εἰσελεύσεται πρὸς τὸ κατοικητήριον;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִנְנִ֨י אֵלַ֜יִךְ יֹשֶׁ֧בֶת הָעֵ֛מֶק צ֥וּר הַמִּישֹׁ֖ר נְאֻם יְהוָ֑ה הָאֹֽמְרִים֙ מִֽי יֵחַ֣ת עָלֵ֔ינוּ וּמִ֥י יָב֖וֹא בִּמְעוֹנוֹתֵֽינוּ
Haydock's commentary
Valley. He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation, upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley. (Challoner)
Literally, "valley, solid and in a plain." (Haydock)
Isaias (xxii. 1.) styles it ironically, "the valley of vision." (Calmet)
Jerusalem was situated on many rocks. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.)
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.