Jeremias 51:64
And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et dices : Sic submergetur Babylon, et non consurget a facie afflictionis quam ego adduco super eam, et dissolvetur. Hucusque verba Jeremiæ.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 28:64
- καὶ ἐρεῖς Οὕτως καταδύσεται Βαβυλών, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀναστῇ ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν Χαλδαίων ὧν ἐγὼ ἐπάγω ἐπ᾽ αὐτήν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ כָּ֠כָה תִּשְׁקַ֨ע בָּבֶ֤ל וְלֹֽא תָקוּם֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָרָעָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָנֹכִ֛י מֵבִ֥יא עָלֶ֖יהָ וְיָעֵ֑פוּ עַד הֵ֖נָּה דִּבְרֵ֥י יִרְמְיָֽהוּ
Haydock's commentary
Sink. The angel did the like; (Apocalypse xviii. 21.; Calmet) and the Phoceans, leaving their country, swore that they would return no more till a piece of red hot iron, which they threw into the sea, should swim. (Herodotus i. 165.)
Thus, &c., was added by the compiler. Septuagint omit the sentence, as what relates to Babylon is placed [in] chap. xxviii. in their copies. (Calmet)
Yet Grabe puts it in a different character. (Haydock)
Jeremias wrote a great deal, after the 4th year of Sedecias, ver. 59. (Calmet)
He here finished his predictions against Babylon. (Worthington)
This does not mean that he did not write the next chapter, (Menochius) as Cappel allows, (Houbigant) though this may still be doubted. (Haydock)
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
Aphrahat Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations, Of Persecution
6. Consider and observe, my hearer, that if God had given a hope to Sodom and to her fellows, He would not have overthrown them with fire and brimstone, the sign of the last day of the world, but would have delivered them over to one of the kingdoms to be chastised. As it is written that when Jeremiah caused the nations and kingdoms to drink the cup of wrath, he said concerning each one of the cities, that after they shall drink the cup, I will turn back the captivity of Elam, of Tyre, of Zidon, of the children of Ammon, and of Moab , and of Edom . Concerning each one of these kingdoms he said: In the last days I well turn back her captivity. Now we see that Tyre was inhabited, and was opulent after she had wandered seventy years , and after she had received the reward of her harlotries and after she had committed fornication with all kingdoms. …