Jeremias 46:6
Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river Euphrates.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non fugiat velox, nec salvari se putet fortis : ad aquilonem juxta flumen Euphraten victi sunt, et ruerunt.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 26:6
- μὴ φευγέτω ὁ κοῦφος, καὶ μὴ ἀνασωζέσθω ὁ ἰσχυρὸς ἐπὶ βορρᾶν· τὰ παρὰ τὸν Εὐφράτην ἠσθένησεν, καὶ πεπτώκασιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַל יָנ֣וּס הַקַּ֔ל וְאַל יִמָּלֵ֖ט הַגִּבּ֑וֹר צָפ֨וֹנָה֙ עַל יַ֣ד נְהַר פְּרָ֔ת כָּשְׁל֖וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ
Haydock's commentary
Away. It will be in vain. (Calmet)
Nechao went to defend Charcamis, but lost "many myriads in the battle," and all the country "as far as Pelusium, except Judea." (Josephus, [Antiquities?] x. 7.)
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.