Jeremias 49:1
Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ad filios Ammon. Hæc dicit Dominus : Numquid non filii sunt Israël, aut hæres non est ei ? cur igitur hæreditate possedit Melchom Gad, et populus ejus in urbibus ejus habitavit ?
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 30:1
- Τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἀμμών. Οὕτως εἶπεν Κύριος Μὴ υἱοὶ οὐκ εἰσὶν ἐν Ἰσραήλ, ἢ παραλημψόμενος οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς; διὰ τί παρέλαβεν Μελχὸλ τὴν Γαλαάδ, καὶ ὁ λαὸς αὐτῶν ἐν πόλεσιν αὐτῶν ἐνοικήσει;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לִבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֗וֹן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲבָנִ֥ים אֵין֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם יוֹרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ מַדּ֗וּעַ יָרַ֤שׁ מַלְכָּם֙ אֶת גָּ֔ד וְעַמּ֖וֹ בְּעָרָ֥יו יָשָֽׁב
Haydock's commentary
Melchom, the idol of the Ammonites. (Challoner)
Gad, to whom a part of their country was assigned. After the captivity of this tribe, the Ammonites seized the country, regardless of God's appointment. They joined the Chaldeans afterwards; but the latter could not depend upon them, and sent them into captivity, to revenge the death of Godolias, chap. xli. 2., Sophonias ii. 8., and Ezechiel xxv. 3. (Calmet)
They had taken the country as their right, as if all Israel had perished; which God resents. (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.