Judith 16:18
The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the waters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Montes a fundamentis movebuntur cum aquis ; petræ, sicut cera, liquescent ante faciem tuam.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:15
- ὄρη γὰρ ἐκ θεμελίων σὺν ὕδασιν σαλευθήσεται, πέτραι δ᾽ ἀπὸ προσώπου σου ὡς κηρὸς τακήσονται· ἔτι δὲ τοῖς φοβουμένοις σε, σὺ εὐιλατεύεις αὐτοῖς.
Haydock's commentary
Waters, by earthquakes and storms, Job ix. 5., Isaias v. 25., and Psalm xvii. 8.
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.