Jeremias 50:17
Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Grex dispersus Israël : leones ejecerunt eum. Primus comedit eum rex Assur : iste novissimus exossavit eum Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 27:17
- Πρόβατον πλανώμενον Ἰσραήλ, λέοντες ἐξῶσαν αὐτόν· ὁ πρῶτος ἔφαγεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς Ἀσσούρ, καὶ οὗτος ὕστερον τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שֶׂ֧ה פְזוּרָ֛ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל אֲרָי֣וֹת הִדִּ֑יחוּ הָרִאשׁ֤וֹן אֲכָלוֹ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וְזֶ֤ה הָאַחֲרוֹן֙ עִצְּמ֔וֹ נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֖ר מֶ֥לֶךְ בָּבֶֽל
Haydock's commentary
Bones. He completely ruined the nation, which the Assyrians had left. (Haydock)
They led the ten tribes away, and the Chaldeans took the rest, 4 Kings xviii., and xxv. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Wars
16. Now as to the first beast, he said concerning it, that it was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. For the first beast was the kingdom of Babylon, which was like a lion. For thus Jeremiah wrote saying: Israel is a wandering sheep. The lions caused them to wander. First the king of Assyria devoured him. And this last was stronger than he, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon . So Jeremiah called him a lion. And he said: He has the wings of an eagle . For thus it is written that, when Nebuchadnezzar went out to the wilderness with the beasts, he grew hair like (the plumage) of an eagle. And he said: I saw that its wings were plucked away and it stood upright upon its feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it . For first, in the vision of the image, he was compared to gold which is more precious than anything which is used in the world. …