Osee 5:7
They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have begotten children that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
Challoner: Children that are strangersThat is, aliens from God: and therefore they are threatened with speedy destruction.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In Dominum prævaricati sunt, quia filios alienos genuerunt : nunc devorabit eos mensis, cum partibus suis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι τὸν κύριον ἐνκατέλιπον, ὅτι τέκνα ἀλλότρια ἐγεννήθησαν αὐτοῖς· νῦν καταφάγεται αὐτοὺς ἡ ἐρυσίβη καὶ τοὺς κλήρους αὐτῶν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בַּיהוָ֣ה בָּגָ֔דוּ כִּֽי בָנִ֥ים זָרִ֖ים יָלָ֑דוּ עַתָּ֛ה יֹאכְלֵ֥ם חֹ֖דֶשׁ אֶת חֶלְקֵיהֶֽם
Haydock's commentary
Strangers. That is, aliens form God: and therefore they are threatened with speedy destruction. (Challoner)
Their offspring is rebellious, and deserves no longer to be called my people, chap. i. 9.
Month. Every month the Assyrians shall come upon them; (Chaldean; St. Jerome) or, in the space of one month, they shall perish. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "the mildew shall eat them and their portions." (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.