Jeremias 31:14
And I will fill the soul of the priests with fatness: and my people shall be filled with my good things, saith the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et inebriabo animam sacerdotum pinguedine, et populus meus bonis meis adimplebitur, ait Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:14
- μεγαλυνῶ καὶ μεθύσω τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν ἱερέων υἱῶν Λευεί, καὶ ὁ λαός μου τῶν ἀγαθῶν μου ἐμπλησθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְרִוֵּיתִ֛י נֶ֥פֶשׁ הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים דָּ֑שֶׁן וְעַמִּ֛י אֶת טוּבִ֥י יִשְׂבָּ֖עוּ נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Fatness. Abundant crops secured them more plentiful tythes[tithes], as long as the people preserved their religion. (Haydock)
No nation had more priests, or better provided for. (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.