Jeremias 50:25
The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath: for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Aperuit Dominus thesaurum suum, et protulit vasa iræ suæ, quoniam opus est Domino Deo exercituum, in terra Chaldæorum.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 27:25
- ἤνοιξεν Κύριος τὸν θησαυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξήνεγκεν τὰ σκεύη ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἔργον τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- פָּתַ֤ח יְהוָה֙ אֶת א֣וֹצָר֔וֹ וַיּוֹצֵ֖א אֶת כְּלֵ֣י זַעְמ֑וֹ כִּי מְלָאכָ֣ה הִ֗יא לַֽאדֹנָ֧י יְהוִ֛ה צְבָא֖וֹת בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּֽים
Haydock's commentary
Armoury. Fire and war are the Lord's weapons, Job xxxviii. 22.
Work: punishment, chap. xlviii. 10.
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
St Gregory Nazianzen On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
6. Terrible is an unfruitful season, and the loss of the crops. It could not be otherwise, when men are already rejoicing in their hopes, and counting on their all but harvested stores. Terrible again is an unseasonable harvest, when the farmers labour with heavy hearts, sitting as it were beside the grave of their crops, which the gentle rain nourished, but the wild storm has rooted up, whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom, nor have they obtained the blessing which passers-by bestow upon the farmers. …