Jeremias 51:36
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will judge thy cause, and will take vengeance for thee, and I will make her sea desolate, and will dry up her spring.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Propterea hæc dicit Dominus : Ecce ego judicabo causam tuam, et ulciscar ultionem tuam : et desertum faciam mare ejus, et siccabo venam ejus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:36
- διὰ τοῦτο τὰδε λέγει Κύριος Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κρινῶ τὴν ἀντίδικόν σου καὶ ἐκδικήσω τὴν ἐκδίκησίν σου, καὶ ἐρημώσω τὴν θάλασσαν αὐτῆς καὶ ξηρανῶ τὴν πηγὴν αὐτῆς·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִי רָב֙ אֶת רִיבֵ֔ךְ וְנִקַּמְתִּ֖י אֶת נִקְמָתֵ֑ךְ וְהַחֲרַבְתִּי֙ אֶת יַמָּ֔הּ וְהֹבַשְׁתִּ֖י אֶת מְקוֹרָֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Spring; commerce, the source of her riches; or rather the waters shall be brought out of their usual channels. For many ages (Calmet) the Euphrates has been lost in sands, and reaches not the Persian Gulf. (Pliny, [Natural History?] vii. 27.) (Cellar. iii. 16.)
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.