Zacharias 9:13
Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons, O Sion, above thy sons, O Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the mighty.
Challoner: Thy sons, O SionViz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quoniam extendi mihi Judam quasi arcum : implevi Ephraim : et suscitabo filios tuos, Sion, super filios tuos, Græcia : et ponam te quasi gladium fortium.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- διότι ἐνέτεινά σε, Ἰούδα, ἐμαυτῷ τόξον, ἔπλησα τὸν Ἐφράιμ, καὶ ἐξεγερῶ τὰ τέκνα σου, Σειών, ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα τῶν Ἑλλήνων, καὶ ψηλαφήσω σε ὡς ῥομφαίαν μαχητοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּֽי דָרַ֨כְתִּי לִ֜י יְהוּדָ֗ה קֶ֚שֶׁת מִלֵּ֣אתִי אֶפְרַ֔יִם וְעוֹרַרְתִּ֤י בָנַ֨יִךְ֙ צִיּ֔וֹן עַל בָּנַ֖יִךְ יָוָ֑ן וְשַׂמְתִּ֖יךְ כְּחֶ֥רֶב גִּבּֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Juda: the Machabees. (St. Jerome)
Filled, or stretched the bow of Ephraim. (Calmet)
The people shall act with vigour and union. (Haydock)
Sons; viz., the apostles, who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ. (Challoner)
The Machabees repressed the insolence of the Seleucides, who were of Greek extraction.
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.