Jeremias 31:37
Thus saith the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I also will cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc dicit Dominus : Si mensurari potuerint cæli sursum, et investigari fundamenta terræ deorsum, et ego abjiciam universum semen Israël, propter omnia quæ fecerunt, dicit Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 38:35
- ἐὰν ὑψωθῇ ὁ οὐρανὸς εἰς τὸ μετέωρον, φησὶν Κύριος, καὶ ἐὰν ταπεινωθῇ τὸ ἔδαφος τῆς γῆς κάτω, καὶ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀποδοκιμῶ τὸ γένος Ἰσραήλ, φησὶν Κύριος, περὶ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησαν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אִם יִמַּ֤דּוּ שָׁמַ֨יִם֙ מִלְמַ֔עְלָה וְיֵחָקְר֥וּ מֽוֹסְדֵי אֶ֖רֶץ לְמָ֑טָּה גַּם אֲנִ֞י אֶמְאַ֨ס בְּכָל זֶ֧רַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל עַֽל כָּל אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשׂ֖וּ נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Out, experimentally, and not by philosophical hypotheses, which were little known in the days of Jeremias. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "if it be made lower." (Haydock)
This is impossible; so it is that I should abandon Israel. (Theodoret)
All was not faithless. (Calmet)
The Israel of God embraced the gospel. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony XX
In the cxth Psalm: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Of the same thing in the Wisdom of Solomon: “The beginning of wisdom is to fear God.” Also in the Proverbs of the same: “Blessed is the man who reverences all things with fear.” Of the same thing in Isaiah: “And upon whom else will I look, except upon him that is lowly and peaceful, and that trembleth at my words?” Of this same thing in Genesis: “And the angel of the Lord called him from heaven, and said unto him, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. …