Jeremias 31:3
The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Longe Dominus apparuit mihi. Et in caritate perpetua dilexi te : ideo attraxi te, miserans.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:3
- Κύριος πόρρωθεν ὤφθη αὐτῷ. Ἀγάπησιν αἰώνιον ἠγάπησά σε, διὰ τοῦτο εἵλκυσά σε εἰς οἰκτείρημα.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מֵרָח֕וֹק יְהוָ֖ה נִרְאָ֣ה לִ֑י וְאַהֲבַ֤ת עוֹלָם֙ אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ עַל כֵּ֖ן מְשַׁכְתִּ֥יךְ חָֽסֶד
Haydock's commentary
Afar. He has seemed to despise me, (St. Jerome) or he has spoken to my ancestors. (Calmet)
Chaldean, He has "manifested himself long ago to our fathers. Prophet, tell them I have," &c., Psalm xxxv. 11., and cviii. 11. (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.