Jeremias 22:5
But if you will not hearken to these words: I swear by myself, saith the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod si non audieritis verba hæc : in memetipso juravi, dicit Dominus, quia in solitudinem erit domus hæc.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ποιήσητε τοὺς λόγους τούτους, κατ᾽ ἐμαυτοῦ ὤμοσα, λέγει Κύριος, ὅτι εἰς ἐρήμωσιν ἔσται ὁ οἶκος οὗτος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א תִשְׁמְע֔וּ אֶת הַדְּבָרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה בִּ֤י נִשְׁבַּ֨עְתִּי֙ נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה כִּי לְחָרְבָּ֥ה יִֽהְיֶ֖ה הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Myself, having none greater, Hebrews vi. 13. Oaths evince the insincerity of men, who distrust each other; but when God condescends to use them, it shews men's incredulity.
House, the temple, or rather the palace, where the king was sitting at the gate, ver. 2. (Calmet)
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
Tertullian The Five Books Against Marcion, The Oath of God: Its Meaning. Moses, When Deprecating God's Wrath Against Israel, a Type of Christ
But God also swears. Well, is it, I wonder, by the God of Marcion? No, no, he says; a much vainer oath, by Himself! What was He to do, when He knew of no other God; especially when He was swearing to this very point, that besides himself there was absolutely no God? Is it then of swearing falsely that you convict Him, or of swearing a vain oath? But it is not possible for him to appear to have sworn falsely, when he was ignorant, as you say he was, that there was another God. For when he swore by that which he knew, he really committed no perjury. But it was not a vain oath for him to swear that there was no other God. It would indeed be a vain oath, if there had been no persons who believed that there were other Gods, like the worshippers of idols then, and the heretics of the present day. …