Judith 16:6
He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixit se incensurum fines meos, et juvenes meos occisurum gladio ; infantes meos dare in prædam, et virgines in captivitatem.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Judith 16:4
- εἶπεν ἐμπρήσειν τὰ ὄρη μου, καὶ τοὺς νεανίσκους μου ἀνελεῖν ῥομφαίᾳ, καὶ τὰ θηλάζοντά μου θήσειν εἰς ἔδαφος, καὶ τὰ νήπιά μου δώσειν εἰς προνομήν, καὶ τὰς παρθένους σκυλεῦσαι.
Haydock's commentary
To make. Greek, "that he would throw my children at the breast, on the pavement, and make," &c. (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.