Jeremias 51:12
Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super muros Babylonis levate signum, augete custodiam, levate custodes, præparate insidias : quia cogitavit Dominus, et fecit quæcumque locutus est contra habitatores Babylonis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:12
- ἐπὶ τειχέων Βαβυλῶνος ἄρατε σημεῖον, ἐπιστήσατε φαρέτρας, ἐγείρατε φυλακάς, ἑτοιμάσατε ὅπλα, ὅτι ἐνεχείρησεν· καὶ ποιήσει Κύριος ἃ ἐλάλησεν ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Βαβυλῶνα,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶל חוֹמֹ֨ת בָּבֶ֜ל שְׂאוּ נֵ֗ס הַחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙ הַמִּשְׁמָ֔ר הָקִ֨ימוּ֙ שֹֽׁמְרִ֔ים הָכִ֖ינוּ הָאֹֽרְבִ֑ים כִּ֚י גַּם זָמַ֣ם יְהוָ֔ה גַּם עָשָׂ֕ה אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּ֖ר אֶל יֹשְׁבֵ֥י בָבֶֽל
Haydock's commentary
Standard. Call together thy subjects and allies. (Haydock)
This must be explained of Babylon. (Menochius)
Yet all will be in vain, ver. 11. (Haydock)
Ambushes. Herein the valour and genius of heroes was most displayed, Josue viii. 2. (Homer)
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.