Jeremias 3:23
In very deed the hills were liars. and the multitude of the mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Vere mendaces erant colles, et multitudo montium : vere in Domino Deo nostro salus Israël.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὄντως εἰς ψεῦδος ἦσαν οἱ βουνοὶ καὶ ἡ δύναμις τῶν ὀρέων, πλὴν διὰ Κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἡ σωτηρία τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אָכֵ֥ן לַשֶּׁ֛קֶר מִגְּבָע֖וֹת הָמ֣וֹן הָרִ֑ים אָכֵן֙ בַּיהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֔ינוּ תְּשׁוּעַ֖ת יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Haydock's commentary
Liars, unfruitful; and the idols have left us empty. (Calmet)
They were placed on the hills. (Houbigant)
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
St Peter of Alexandria The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras, Canon IV
To those who are altogether reprobate, and unrepentant, who possess the Ethiopian’s unchanging skin, and the leopard’s spots, it shall be said, as it was spoken to another fig-tree, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever; and it presently withered away.” For in them is fulfilled what was spoken by the Preacher: “That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” For unless that which is crooked shall first be made straight, it is impossible for it to be adorned; and unless that which is wanting shall first be made up, it cannot be numbered. …