Jeremias 38:2
Thus saith the Lord: Whosoever shall remain in this city, shall die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence: but he that shall go forth to the Chaldeans, shall live, and his life shall be safe, and he shall live.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hæc dicit Dominus : Quicumque manserit in civitate hac, morietur gladio, et fame, et peste : qui autem profugerit ad Chaldæos, vivet, et erit anima ejus sospes et vivens.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 45:2
- Οὕτως εἶπεν Κύριος Ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ ἀποθανεῖται ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ καὶ ἐν λιμῷ, καὶ ὁ ἐκπορευόμενος πρὸς τοὺς Χαλδαίους ζήσεται, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ εἰς εὕρεμα καὶ ζήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כֹּה֮ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֒ הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ בָּעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את יָמ֕וּת בַּחֶ֖רֶב בָּרָעָ֣ב וּבַדָּ֑בֶר וְהַיֹּצֵ֤א אֶל הַכַּשְׂדִּים֙ יחיה וְהָיְתָה לּ֥וֹ נַפְשׁ֛וֹ לְשָׁלָ֖ל וָחָֽי
Haydock's commentary
Safe. Hebrew, "a booty," chap. xxi. 9.
Septuagint, "like a thing found." (Calmet)
The Hebrew idiom implies that he shall most surely live. Voluntary offerings prevent eternal misery. (Worthington)
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.