Jeremias 46:16
He hath multiplied them that fall, and one hath fallen upon another, and they shall say: Arise, and let us return to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the sword of the dove.
Challoner: The doveSee the annotation on chap. 25., ver. 38.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Multiplicavit ruentes, ceciditque vir ad proximum suum, et dicent : Surge, et revertamur ad populum nostrum, et ad terram nativitatis nostræ, a facie gladii columbæ.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 26:16
- καὶ τὸ πλῆθός σου ἠσθένησεν καὶ ἔπεσαν, καὶ ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐλάλει Ἀναστῶμεν καὶ ἀναστρέψωμεν πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ἡμῶν εἰς τὴν πατρίδα ἡμῶν ἀπὸ προσώπου μαχαίρας Ἑλληνικῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הִרְבָּ֖ה כּוֹשֵׁ֑ל גַּם נָפַ֞ל אִ֣ישׁ אֶל רֵעֵ֗הוּ וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ ק֣וּמָה וְנָשֻׁ֣בָה אֶל עַמֵּ֗נוּ וְאֶל אֶ֨רֶץ֙ מֽוֹלַדְתֵּ֔נוּ מִפְּנֵ֖י חֶ֥רֶב הַיּוֹנָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Dove. Hebrew also, "of the destroyer." Septuagint, "Greeks," or Ionians. (Calmet)
See chap. xxv. 35. (Challoner)
Nebuchodonosor came with expedition, or had a dove on his standards. (Menochius)
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.