Numbers 17:12
And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixerunt autem filii Israël ad Moysen : Ecce consumpti sumus, omnes perivimus.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Καὶ εἶπαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς Μωυσῆν λέγοντες Ἰδοὺ ἐξανηλώμεθα, ἀπολώλαμεν, παρανηλώμεθα·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Numbers 17:27
- וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶל מֹשֶׁ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵ֥ן גָּוַ֛עְנוּ אָבַ֖דְנוּ כֻּלָּ֥נוּ אָבָֽדְנוּ
Haydock's commentary
All perish. Many had been already destroyed. Those who remained, and were conscious of their seditious practices, feared a similar treatment. (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.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrews 11.7
Perhaps some are even disgusted and laugh. For this very cause ought we to make our lamentations the more intense, because we are so mad and beside ourselves, that we do not know that we are mad, but laugh at things for which we ought to groan. O man! “There is wrath revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men” ( Rom. i. 18 ); “God will come manifestly: a fire will burn before Him, and round about Him will be a mighty tempest.” ( Ps. l. 3 .) “A fire will burn before Him, and consume His enemies on every side.” ( Ps. xcvii. 3 .) “The day of the Lord is as a burning oven.” ( Mal. iv. 1 .) And no man lays up these things in his mind, but these tremendous and fearful doctrines are more despised than fables, and are trodden under foot. He that heareth, there is no one: while they who laugh and make sport are, all. …