Joel 2:18
The Lord hath been zealous for his land, and hath spared his people.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Zelatus est Dominus terram suam, et pepercit populo suo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ ἐζήλωσεν Κύριος τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐφείσατο τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְקַנֵּ֥א יְהוָ֖ה לְאַרְצ֑וֹ וַיַּחְמֹ֖ל עַל עַמּֽוֹ
Haydock's commentary
Zealous. Indignation is excited when a person perceives any thing contemned which he loves. So God resented the injuries done maliciously by the Gentiles towards his people; though he often punished them for their correction or greater merit. (Worthington)
He will resent the blasphemies uttered by infidels against his holy name, and will restore fertility to the land. (Calmet)
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.