Judges 7:20
And when they sounded their trumpets in three places round about the camp, and had broken their pitchers, they held their lamps in their left hands, and with their right hands the trumpets which they blew, and they cried out: The sword of the Lord and of Gedeon;
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque per gyrum castrorum in tribus personarent locis, et hydrias confregissent, tenuerunt sinistris manibus lampades, et dextris sonantes tubas, clamaveruntque : Gladius Domini et Gedeonis :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐσάλπισαν αἱ τρεῖς ἀρχαὶ ἐν ταῖς κερατίναις, καὶ συνέτριψαν τὰς ὑδρείας, καὶ ἐκράτησαν ἐν χερσὶν ἀριστεραῖς αὐτῶν τὰς λαμπάδας καὶ ἐν χερσὶν δεξιαῖς αὐτῶν τὰς κερατίνας τοῦ σαλπίζειν, καὶ ἀνέκραξαν Ῥομφαία τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ Γεδεών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַֽ֠יִּתְקְעוּ שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת הָרָאשִׁ֥ים בַּשּֽׁוֹפָרוֹת֮ וַיִּשְׁבְּר֣וּ הַכַּדִּים֒ וַיַּחֲזִ֤יקוּ בְיַד שְׂמאוֹלָם֙ בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים וּבְיַ֨ד יְמִינָ֔ם הַשּׁוֹפָר֖וֹת לִתְק֑וֹעַ וַֽיִּקְרְא֔וּ חֶ֥רֶב לַֽיהוָ֖ה וּלְגִדְעֽוֹן
The Fathers on this verse
St Ephrem the Syrian Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns, Hymn LIX
1. Lo! Death for us on Satan, inflicts vengeance: come let us hear his shame and rejoice, for he rejoiced in our shame. 2. R., To Thee be glory from Thy flock, from Thee: are subdued both Death and Satan, under Thy Feet! 3. D ., Evil ones shall be hung upright, but thou, head downward: for, reversely, thou crucifiedst, Simon on the tree. 4. S ., Touching all else I am silent, Death, for my time wanes: Simon himself conjured me, “Crucify me thus.”, 5. Were it the just that cursed me, I had not grieved: the curse of Death unto me, is worse than hell. 6. D ., The shame of our Lord I have not spoken of, it is too great for my mouth: that I should weigh and compare His Passion, with Thy torment. 7. Twelve judgment thrones shall He set, for His Twelve: for by the twelve tribes thou, even thou, shall be condemned. 8. …