Wisdom 11:7
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Nam pro fonte quidem sempiterni fluminis, humanum sanguinem dedisti injustis.
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Wisdom 11:6
- ἀντὶ μὲν πηγῆς ἀενάου ποταμοῦ αἵματι λυθρώδει ταραχθέντες
Haydock's commentary
River. The Nile, to which the Egyptians gave divine honours. (Calmet)
Thou. Septuagint, "disturbed with corrupted blood, in punishment of the infanticide decree, thou gavest," &c.
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.