Osee 12:4
And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est ; flevit, et rogavit eum. In Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐνίσχυσεν μετὰ ἀγγέλου καὶ ἠδυνάσθη· ἔκλαυσαν καὶ ἐδεήθησάν μου, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Ὤν εὕροσάν με, καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐλαλήθη πρὸς αὐτούς.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Osee 12:5
- וָיָּ֤שַׂר אֶל מַלְאָךְ֙ וַיֻּכָ֔ל בָּכָ֖ה וַיִּתְחַנֶּן ל֑וֹ בֵּֽית אֵל֙ יִמְצָאֶ֔נּוּ וְשָׁ֖ם יְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּֽנוּ
Haydock's commentary
Wept. Septuagint, "they wept, and besought me." Other interpreters agree with the Vulgate.
Us. By changing a vowel point, in Hebrew, it might be, "He spoke to him." (Cap.[Cappel?;] Grotius)
The most magnificent promises were made, at Bethel, regarding the Israelites: this made the profanation of the place more horrible. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "They found me in the house of On, and there the word was addressed to them."
Bethaven was the name of Bethel, among the pious Jews, in the days of Osee. (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.