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Jeremias 50:16

Destroy the sower out of Babylon, and him that holdeth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the sword of the dove every man shall return to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

Challoner: The doveOr the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the one or the other.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Disperdite satorem de Babylone, et tenentem falcem in tempore messis : a facie gladii columbæ unusquisque ad populum suum convertetur, et singuli ad terram suam fugient.
Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 27:16: ἐξολεθρεύσατε σπέρμα ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος, κατέχοντα δρέπανον ἐν καιρῷ θερισμοῦ, ἀπὸ προσώπου μαχαίρας Ἑλληνικῆς ἕκαστος εἰς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἀποστρέψουσιν, καὶ ἕκαστος εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ φεύξεται.
Hebrew (WLC): כִּרְת֤וּ זוֹרֵ֨עַ֙ מִבָּבֶ֔ל וְתֹפֵ֥שׂ מַגָּ֖ל בְּעֵ֣ת קָצִ֑יר מִפְּנֵי֙ חֶ֣רֶב הַיּוֹנָ֔ה אִ֤ישׁ אֶל עַמּוֹ֙ יִפְנ֔וּ וְאִ֥ישׁ לְאַרְצ֖וֹ יָנֻֽסוּ

Haydock's commentary

Harvest. Such were usually unmolested. (Calmet)

Babylon was so large, that people sowed corn within the walls. (Curt. v.)

The environs were well cultivated. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xviii. 17.)

Dove, or the destroyer; for the Hebrew word signifies either the one or the other. (Challoner) (Chap. xxv. 38., and xlvi. 16.)

Literally, "from before the sword of the dove." The power of Babylon is no more. (Haydock)

The king is compared to a dove, for his swiftness; or God is meek, though terrible. (Worthington)

Land. The other nations were set free as well as the Jews. (Calmet)

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.