Jeremias 51:37
And Babylon shall be reduced to heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment and a hissing, because there is no inhabitant.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erit Babylon in tumulos, habitatio draconum, stupor et sibilus, eo quod non sit habitator.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:37
- καὶ ἔσται Βαβυλὼν εἰς ἀφανισμόν, καὶ οὐ κατοικηθήσεται.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיְתָה֩ בָבֶ֨ל לְגַלִּ֧ים מְעוֹן תַּנִּ֛ים שַׁמָּ֥ה וּשְׁרֵקָ֖ה מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב
Haydock's commentary
Dragons. This has been the case for above sixteen centuries, chap. l. 31., and Isaias xiii. 21.
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.