Judges 8:7
And he said to them: When the Lord therefore shall have delivered Zebee and Salmana into my hands, I will thresh your flesh with the thorns and briers of the desert.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quibus ille ait : Cum ergo tradiderit Dominus Zebee et Salmana in manus meas, conteram carnes vestras cum spinis tribulisque deserti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Γεδεών Διὰ τοῦτο ἐν τῷ δοῦναι Κύριον τὸν Ζέβεε καὶ Σελμανὰ ἐν χειρί μου, καὶ ἐγὼ ἀλοήσω τὰς σάρκας ὑμῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀκάνθαις τῆς ἐρήμου καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἁβαρκηνείν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר גִּדְע֔וֹן לָכֵ֗ן בְּתֵ֧ת יְהוָ֛ה אֶת זֶ֥בַח וְאֶת צַלְמֻנָּ֖ע בְּיָדִ֑י וְדַשְׁתִּי֙ אֶת בְּשַׂרְכֶ֔ם אֶת קוֹצֵ֥י הַמִּדְבָּ֖ר וְאֶת הַֽבַּרְקֳנִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Desert. An usual mode of punishment, (2 Kings xii., and 1 Paralipomenon xx. 3.; Calmet) which the cruel irrision of Gedeon and his army, who were fighting in the cause of God and of the nation, richly called for.
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.