Jeremias 48:31
Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ideo super Moab ejulabo, et ad Moab universam clamabo, ad viros muri fictilis lamentantes :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 31:31
- διὰ τοῦτο ἐπὶ Μωὰβ ὀλολύζετε πάντοθεν· βοήσατε ἐπ᾽ ἄνδρας Κεὶρ Ἅδας αὐχμοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עַל כֵּן֙ עַל מוֹאָ֣ב אֲיֵלִ֔יל וּלְמוֹאָ֥ב כֻּלֹּ֖ה אֶזְעָ֑ק אֶל אַנְשֵׁ֥י קִֽיר חֶ֖רֶשׂ יֶהְגֶּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Brick wall. Hebrew Kir-cheres, (Isaias xvi. 7.; Calmet) "the city of the sun;" (Grotius) Ar, the capital. The prophet joins in the mournful canticle, as was usual, Luke vii. 32. (Calmet)
Those who boast of more than they have, are compared to an earthen wall. (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.