Zacharias 14:5
And you shall flee to the valley of those mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall be joined even to the next, and you shall flee as you fled from the face of the earthquake in the days of Ozias king of Juda: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et fugietis ad vallem montium eorum, quoniam conjungetur vallis montium usque ad proximum : et fugietis sicut fugistis a facie terræmotus in diebus Oziæ regis Juda : et veniet Dominus Deus meus, omnesque sancti cum eo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ φραχθήσεται ἡ φάραγξ ὀρέων μου, καὶ ἐνκολληθήσεται φάραγξ ὀρέων ἕως Ἰασόδ, καὶ ἐνφραχθήσεται καθὼς ἐνεφράγη ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τοῦ σεισμοῦ, ἐν ἡμέραις Ὀζείου βασιλέως Ἰούδα· καὶ ἥξει Κύριος ὁ θεός μου, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἅγιοι μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְנַסְתֶּ֣ם גֵּֽיא הָרַ֗י כִּֽי יַגִּ֣יעַ גֵּי הָרִים֮ אֶל אָצַל֒ וְנַסְתֶּ֗ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר נַסְתֶּם֙ מִפְּנֵ֣י הָרַ֔עַשׁ בִּימֵ֖י עֻזִּיָּ֣ה מֶֽלֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה וּבָא֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהַ֔י כָּל קְדֹשִׁ֖ים עִמָּֽךְ
Haydock's commentary
Flee. While the siege was forming many escaped, according to Josephus. Hebrew, Septuagint, &c., "The vale of my mountains shall be filled up, for," &c. (Calmet)
Yet Protestants agree with us. (Haydock)
Those should be "my." (Ribera) (Menochius)
The next. Protestants and Septuagint, "reach unto Azal." (Haydock)
You shall. Septuagint, &c., "and it shall be filled, as it was filled at the earthquake," &c. (Calmet)
The Romans had to raise many works in the vale of Cedron, so that the trees all round were cut down, and the garden walls removed thither. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 4, 14.)
Ozias, when he attempted to offer incense. (Josephus, Antiquities ix. 11.) (Amos i. 1., and 4 Kings xv. 15.)
Yet the earthquake is not specified in the sacred historical books. (Worthington)
On that occasion, the people retired into the vale formed by the separation of Olivet; or, if we follow the Septuagint, part of that mountain fell into the valley of Cedron, which we find nowhere else specified. (Calmet)
With him. Protestants, "thee." (Haydock)
God is attended by his angels; though the Romans may be called his saints, or people destined to execute his decrees in this war, Isaias xiii. 3., and Sophonias i. 7., and Deuteronomy xxxiii. 3., and Joel iii. 1. (Calmet)
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 Ambrose On the Holy Spirit, Chapter XI. We shall follow the example of Abdemelech, if we believe that the Son and Holy Spirit know all things. This knowledge is attributed in Scripture to the Spirit, and also to the Son. The Son is glorified by the Spirit, as also the Spirit by the Son. Also, inasmuch as we read that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit say and reveal the same things, we must acknowledge in Them a oneness of nature and knowledge. Lastly, that the Spirit searcheth the deep things of God is not a mark of ignorance, since the Father and the Son are likewise said to search, and Paul, although chosen by Christ, yet was taught by the Spirit
119. Yet learn that the Son knows the day of judgment. We read in Zechariah: “And the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Him. In that day there shall not be light, but cold and frost, and it shall be one day, and that day is known unto the Lord.” This day, then, was known unto the Lord, Who shall come with His saints, to enlighten us by His second Advent.