Zacharias 9:8
And I will encompass my house with them that serve me in war, going and returning, and the oppressor shall no more pass through them: for now I have seen with my eyes.
The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et circumdabo domum meam ex his qui militant mihi euntes et revertentes : et non transibit super eos ultra exactor, quia nunc vidi in oculis meis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὑποστήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ μου ἀνάστημα τοῦ μὴ διαπορεύεσθαι μηδὲ ἀνακάμπτειν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς οὐκέτι ἐξελαύνων, διότι νῦν ἑόρακα ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְחָנִ֨יתִי לְבֵיתִ֤י מִצָּבָה֙ מֵעֹבֵ֣ר וּמִשָּׁ֔ב וְלֹֽא יַעֲבֹ֧ר עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם ע֖וֹד נֹגֵ֑שׂ כִּ֥י עַתָּ֖ה רָאִ֥יתִי בְעֵינָֽי
Haydock's commentary
War; the Machabees. (Challoner)
They stood up like a wall for the people and the temple. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "my house, on account of those going," &c. I will protect it better than an army. (Haydock)
After the Machabees, God preserved the temple from profanation till he abandoned it after the death of Christ. (Calmet)
Yet Pompey penetrated into the most holy place, and Crassus plundered the treasury. Both felt the effects of their impiety, and had no farther success.
Oppressor; tax-gatherer, (Haydock) sent by foreign tyrants. (Menochius)
Till the Machabees, particularly Hircan, (Calmet) or Simon, his father, (Haydock) threw off the yoke, the Jews were always subject (Calmet) either to the Persians, to Syria, or to Egypt. (Haydock)
Hircan's son, Aristobulus, took the title king, and governed in peace. (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.