Jeremias 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.
Challoner: BelBel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of Babylon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Annuntiate in gentibus, et auditum facite : levate signum, prædicate, et nolite celare : dicite : Capta est Babylon, confusus est Bel, victus est Merodach, confusa sunt sculptilia ejus, superata sunt idola eorum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 27:2
- Ἀναγγείλατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν καὶ ἀκουστὰ ποιήσατε καὶ μὴ κρύψητε· εἴπατε Ἑάλωκεν Βαβυλών, κατῃσχύνθη Βῆλος ἡ ἀπτόητος, ἡ τρυφερὰ παρεδόθη Μαιωδάκ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַגִּ֨ידוּ בַגּוֹיִ֤ם וְהַשְׁמִ֨יעוּ֙ וּֽשְׂאוּ נֵ֔ס הַשְׁמִ֖יעוּ אַל תְּכַחֵ֑דוּ אִמְרוּ֩ נִלְכְּדָ֨ה בָבֶ֜ל הֹבִ֥ישׁ בֵּל֙ חַ֣ת מְרֹדָ֔ךְ הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ עֲצַבֶּ֔יהָ חַ֖תּוּ גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ
Haydock's commentary
Declare. This is grand. Let all the captives publish these tidings. (Calmet)
Bel, &c. Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of Babylon. (Challoner)
Merodach might be an ancient king deified. (Calmet)
These greatest of their idols could neither save the people nor themselves. (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.