Osee 13:11
I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dabo tibi regem in furore meo, et auferam in indignatione mea.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἔδωκά σοι βασιλέα ἐν ὀργῇ μου, καὶ ἔσχον ἐν τῷ θυμῷ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֶֽתֶּן לְךָ֥ מֶ֨לֶךְ֙ בְּאַפִּ֔י וְאֶקַּ֖ח בְּעֶבְרָתִֽי
Haydock's commentary
King; Saul, Jeroboam, or the Assyrian.
Away. Osee, (Calmet) so that you shall have no more kings of Israel. (Haydock)
Septuagint alone have, "I took (Calmet) or had him in," &c. (St. Jerome)
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 Augustine Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans, From God Also is the Very Power to Be Hurtful
Likewise because the power even of those that are hurtful is from God alone, thus it stands written, Wisdom speaking: "Through me kings reign and tyrants hold the land through me." The apostle also says: "For there is no power but of God." But that it is worthily done is written in the book of Job: "Who maketh to reign a man that is a hypocrite, on account of the perversity of the people." And concerning the people of Israel God says: "I gave them a king in my wrath." For it is not unrighteous, that the wicked receiving the power of being hurtful, both the patience of the good should be proved and the iniquity of the evil punished. For through power given to the Devil both Job was proved so that he might appear righteous, and Peter was tempted lest he should be presumptuous, and Paul was buffeted lest he should be exalted, and Judas was damned so that he should hang himself. …