Jeremias 29:28
For he hath also sent to us in Babylon, saying: It is a long time: build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quia super hoc misit in Babylonem ad nos, dicens : Longum est : ædificate domos, et habitate : et plantate hortos, et comedite fructus eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 36:28
- οὐ διὰ τοῦτο ἀπέστειλεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰς Βαβυλῶνα λέγων Μακράν ἐστιν, οἰκοδομήσατε οἰκίας καὶ κατοικήσατε, καὶ φυτεύσατε κήπους καὶ φάγεσθε τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֣י עַל כֵּ֞ן שָׁלַ֥ח אֵלֵ֛ינוּ בָּבֶ֥ל לֵאמֹ֖ר אֲרֻכָּ֣ה הִ֑יא בְּנ֤וּ בָתִּים֙ וְשֵׁ֔בוּ וְנִטְע֣וּ גַנּ֔וֹת וְאִכְל֖וּ אֶת פְּרִיהֶֽן
Haydock's commentary
Time, before you will return. (Haydock)
Sophonias read the letter, approving of its contents, (St. Jerome) though this is not certain. He took no violent steps against Jeremias, as Phassur had done. (Haydock)
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.