Jeremias 46:11
Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ascende in Galaad, et tolle resinam, virgo filia Ægypti : frustra multiplicas medicamina : sanitas non erit tibi.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 26:11
- ἀνάβηθι, Γαλαάδ, καὶ λάβε ῥητίνην τῇ παρθένῳ θυγατρὶ Αἰγύπτου· εἰς τὸ κενὸν ἐπλήθυνας ἰάματά σου, ὠφέλεια οὐκ ἔστιν σοί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עֲלִ֤י גִלְעָד֙ וּקְחִ֣י צֳרִ֔י בְּתוּלַ֖ת בַּת מִצְרָ֑יִם לַשָּׁוְא֙ הרביתי רְפֻא֔וֹת תְּעָלָ֖ה אֵ֥ין לָֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Of Egypt; or ye Egyptians, who have been wounded. The balm (Haydock) or resina of Galaad was then very famous, Genesis xxxvii. 25. (Calmet)
Egypt thought itself invulnerable, and is derided. Its cure was hopeless, ver. 16. (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.