Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Pro quibus tormentis bene disposuisti populum tuum, quibus dedisti concupiscentiam delectamenti sui novum saporem, escam parans eis ortygometram :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀνθ᾽ ἧς κολάσεως εὐεργετήσας τὸν λαόν σου, εἰς ἐπιθυμίαν ὀρέξεως ξένην γεῦσιν, τροφὴν ἡτοίμασας ὀρτυγομήτραν·
Haydock's commentary
Meat. The second time, God gave them in his anger: but still he dealt favourably with his people, (Exodus xvi. 13., and Numbers xi. 7.; Calmet) punishing them as a father, for their amendment. (Worthington)
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.