Jeremias 48:47
And I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the last days, saith the Lord. Hitherto the judgments of Moab.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et convertam captivitatem Moab in novissimis diebus, ait Dominus. Hucusque judicia Moab.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְשַׁבְתִּ֧י שְׁבוּת מוֹאָ֛ב בְּאַחֲרִ֥ית הַיָּמִ֖ים נְאֻם יְהוָ֑ה עַד הֵ֖נָּה מִשְׁפַּ֥ט מוֹאָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Days. When they, Elam and the other Gentiles, shall be converted to the faith of Christ. We read of no other bringing back, (Worthington) though it might take place. (Haydock)
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.
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
6. Consider and observe, my hearer, that if God had given a hope to Sodom and to her fellows, He would not have overthrown them with fire and brimstone, the sign of the last day of the world, but would have delivered them over to one of the kingdoms to be chastised. As it is written that when Jeremiah caused the nations and kingdoms to drink the cup of wrath, he said concerning each one of the cities, that after they shall drink the cup, I will turn back the captivity of Elam, of Tyre, of Zidon, of the children of Ammon, and of Moab , and of Edom . Concerning each one of these kingdoms he said: In the last days I well turn back her captivity. Now we see that Tyre was inhabited, and was opulent after she had wandered seventy years , and after she had received the reward of her harlotries and after she had committed fornication with all kingdoms. …