Jeremias 51:53
If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Si ascenderit Babylon in cælum, et firmaverit in excelso robur suum, a me venient vastatores ejus, ait Dominus.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:53
- ὅτι ἐὰν ἀναβῇ Βαβυλὼν ὡς ὁ οὐρανός, καὶ ὅτι ἐὰν ὀχυρώσῃ τὰ τείχη ἰσχύι αὐτῆς, παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἥξουσιν ἐξολεθρεύοντες αὐτήν, λέγει Κύριος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי תַעֲלֶ֤ה בָבֶל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְכִ֥י תְבַצֵּ֖ר מְר֣וֹם עֻזָּ֑הּ מֵאִתִּ֗י יָבֹ֧אוּ שֹׁדְדִ֛ים לָ֖הּ נְאֻם יְהוָֽה
Haydock's commentary
High. Her fortifications and ditches will prove fruitless, chap. xlviii. 7, 18.
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.