Zacharias 14:8
And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et erit in die illa : exibunt aquæ vivæ de Jerusalem : medium earum ad mare orientale, et medium earum ad mare novissimum : in æstate et in hieme erunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐξελεύσεται ὕδωρ ζῶν ἐξ Ἰερουσαλήμ, τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν πρώτην, καὶ τὸ ἥμισυ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν τὴν ἐσχάτην, καὶ ἐν θέρει καὶ ἐν ἔαρι ἔσται οὕτως.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיָ֣ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא יֵצְא֤וּ מַֽיִם חַיִּים֙ מִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם חֶצְיָ֗ם אֶל הַיָּם֙ הַקַּדְמוֹנִ֔י וְחֶצְיָ֖ם אֶל הַיָּ֣ם הָאַחֲר֑וֹן בַּקַּ֥יִץ וּבָחֹ֖רֶף יִֽהְיֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Living waters; viz., the gospel of Christ. (Challoner)
Last: Mediterranean. (Haydock)
The prophet now turns to the figurative Jerusalem. The earthly city was not well supplied with water. (Calmet)
It was in the most dry and barren part of the country. (St. Jerome in Isaias xlix.)
As much as the Mediterranean excels the Dead Sea, so much do the Gentiles surpass the Jewish converts in numbers. See chap. xiii 1. (Calmet)
The true faith is Catholic in all places, and at all times. (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.