Jeremias 39:8
And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house, and the houses of the people with fire, and they threw down the wall of Jerusalem.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Domum quoque regis et domum vulgi succenderunt Chaldæi igni, et murum Jerusalem subverterunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint's Jeremias lacks Douay 39:4 to 13: Sedecias's flight and capture, the burning of Jerusalem, the exile, and the king's order to look after Jeremias.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאֶת בֵּ֤ית הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ וְאֶת בֵּ֣ית הָעָ֔ם שָׂרְפ֥וּ הַכַּשְׂדִּ֖ים בָּאֵ֑שׁ וְאֶת חֹמ֥וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם נָתָֽצוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily XIX
10. But when He did not prevail with him by this address, but he remained in his sin and transgression, after three years, God delivered up the city, displaying at once His own clemency and the ingratitude of that king. And entering in with the utmost ease, they “burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house, the captain of the guard burnt, and overthrew the wall of Jerusalem;” and everywhere there was the fire of the barbarian, the oath being the conductor of the conflagration, and carrying about the flame in all directions. “And the captain of the guard carried away the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon. …