The judgment of mount Seir, for their hatred of Israel.
An other prophecie against the Idumeans, 5. because they afflicted the Israelites.
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:E IL Signore parlommi, dicendo:AND the word of our Lord was made to me, saying:Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:Figliuolo dell'uomo, volgi la tua faccia verso il monte di Seir, e profeterai intorno ad esso, e gli dirai:Sonne of man set thy face against mount Seir, and thou shalt prophecie of it, and shalt say to it:Fili hominis, pone faciem tuam adversum montem Seir, et prophetabis de eo, et dices illi: 3Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, mount Seir, and I will stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I will make thee desolate and waste.Queste cose dice il Signore Dio: Eccomi a te, o monte di Seir, ed io stenderò la mia mano sopra di te, e ti renderò desolato, e deserto.Thus saith our Lord God: Behold I to thee mount Seir, and I wil stretch forth my hand vpon thee, and wil make thee desolate and desert.Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Ecce ego ad te, mons Seir: / et extendam manum meam super te, / et dabo te desolatum atque desertum. 4I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt be desolate: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.Io demolirò le tue città, e tu sarai disabitato, e conoscerai, ch'io sono il Signore.Thy cities I wil destroy, and thou shalt be desert: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.Urbes tuas demoliar, / et tu desertus eris: / et scies quia ego Dominus. 5Because thou hast been an everlasting enemy, and hast shut up the children of Israel in the hands of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of their last iniquity.Perchè tu se' stato nemico eterno, e colla spada alla mano chiudesti a' figliuoli di Israele lo scampo nel tempo della loro afflizione, e nel tempo di estrema calamità;For that thou hast bene an euerlasting enemie, and hast shutvp the children of Israel into the handes of the sword in the time of their affliction, in the time of extreme iniquitie.Eo quod fueris inimicus sempiternus, / et concluseris filios Israël in manus gladii / in tempore afflictionis eorum, / in tempore iniquitatis extremæ: 6Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee.Per questo io giuro (dice il Signore Dio), che io ti abbandonerò al sangue, e il sangue ti perseguiterà, e, avendo tu odiato il sangue, il sangue ti perseguiterà,Therfore liue I, saith our Lord God, that I wil deliuer thee vnto bloud, & bloud shal persecute thee: & wheras thou hast hated bloud, bloud shal persecute thee.propterea vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus, / quoniam sanguini tradam te, / et sanguis te persequetur: / et cum sanguinem oderis, / sanguis persequetur te.
7And I will make mount Seir waste and desolate: and I will take away from it him that goeth and him that returneth.E renderò desolato, e deserto il monte di Seir, e farò, che non vi sia più chi vada, e chi venga.And I wil make mount Seir desolate and desert: and I wil take from it the comer, and goer.Et dabo montem Seir desolatum atque desertum, / et auferam de eo euntem et redeuntem. 8And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.E i monti di lei empierò de' suoi uccisi: su' tuoi colli, e pelle tue valli, e pe' torrenti caderanno uccisi di spada.And I wil fil his mountaines with his slaine: in thy hilles, and in thy valleis, and in the torrents shal the slaine with the sword fal.Et implebo montes ejus occisorum suorum: / in collibus tuis, et in vallibus tuis atque in torrentibus, / interfecti gladio cadent. 9I will make thee everlasting desolations, and thy cities shall not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.Ti ridurrò in solitudini eterne, e le tue città non saranno abitate; e conoscerete, ch'io sono il Signore Dio:Into euerlasting desolations wil I deliuer thee, and thy cities shal not be inhabited: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord God.In solitudines sempiternas tradam te, / et civitates tuæ non habitabuntur: / et scietis quia ego Dominus Deus. 10Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.Perchè tu dicesti: Due genti, e due regioni saranno mie, ed io le possederò in retaggio, quando ivi si stava il Signore;For that thou hast said: The two nations, and the two landes shal be mine, and I wil possesse them by inheritance: wheras our Lord was there.Eo quod dixeris: Duæ gentes et duæ terræ meæ erunt, / et hæreditate possidebo eas, / cum Dominus esset ibi: 11Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will do according to thy wrath, and according to thy envy, which thou hast exercised in hatred to them: and I will be made known by them, when I shall have judged thee.Per questo io giuro, dice il Signore Dio, io ti tratterò come merita la tua ira, e la tua invidia, e l'odio contro di essi; ed io sarò conosciuto per mezzo di essi, quando avrò fatto giudizio di te.Therfore liue I, saith our Lord God, that I wil doe according to thy wrath, and according to thy zele, which thou hast vsed hating them: and I wil be made knowne by them, when I shal haue iudged thee.propterea vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus, / quia faciam juxta iram tuam, et secundum zelum tuum, / quem fecisti odio habens eos: / et notus efficiar per eos, cum te judicavero.
12And thou shalt know that I the Lord have heard all thy reproaches, that thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying. They are desolate, they are given to us to consume.E conoscerai, che io il Signore ho uditi tutti gli obbrobri, che tu hai detti contro i monti d'Israele, dicendo: Sono in abbandono, sono dati a noi, perchè li divoriamo.And thou shalt know that I the Lord haue heard al thy reproches, that thou hast spoken of the montaines of Israel, saying: They are desert, they are geuen vnto vs to deuoure.Et scies quia ego Dominus audivi universa opprobria tua / quæ locutus es de montibus Israël, dicens: / Deserti; nobis ad devorandum dati sunt. 13And you rose up against me with your mouth, and have derogated from me by your words: I have heard them.E vi siete alzati contro di me colla vostra lingua, e gettaste contro di me le vostre parole: io le udii.And you rose vp vpon me with your mouth, & haue derogated your wordes against me: I heard it.Et insurrexistis super me ore vestro, / et derogastis adversum me verba vestra: / ego audivi. 14Thus saith the Lord God: When the whole earth shall rejoice, I will make thee a wilderness.Queste cose dice il Signore Dio: Con giubilo di tutta la terra io ti ridurrò in solitudine.Thus saith our Lord God: Al the earth reioycing, I wil bring thee into a wildernes.Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: / Lætante universa terra, / in solitudinem te redigam: 15As thou hast rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was laid waste, so will I do to thee: thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir, and all Idumea: and they shall know that I am the Lord.Siccome tu facesti festa sopra l'eredità della casa d'Israele, perchè era dissipata, così io farò a te: tu, o monte di Seir, sarai devastato, e tu, Idumea, tutta quanta: e conosceranno, ch'io sono il Signore.As thou hast reioyced vpon the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was dissipated, so wil I doe to thee: Thou shalt be dissipated mount Seir, and al Idumea: and they shal know that I am the Lord.sicuti gavisus es super hæreditatem domus Israël / eo quod fuerit dissipata, / sic faciam tibi: / dissipatus eris, mons Seir, et Idumæa omnis: / et scient quia ego Dominus.
35:2
Worthington
Face. Address, or speak without fearing any man. (Worthington)
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Worthington
Enemy. God revenges the injuries done to his Church, as if they were done to himself, Acts 9:4. (Worthington)
The enmity of Jacob and of Esau seemed to commence in the womb, and was increased by the purchase of the birth-right, till Jacob's prudence disarmed his brother. Their descendants sought every opportunity to injure one another. The Idumeans shewed their ill-will particularly, when the Jews were most distressed. This was a piece of the greatest cruelty.
35:6
Blood. The Machabees sprung from the same stock. Pursue the Idumeans, and force them to receive circumcision, 1 Machabees 4:15.
35:9
Inhabited for a considerable time, as [in] Ezechiel 26:20.
35:10
Two. I will add the country of the Jews to my own, or will possess the land belonging to the kingdoms of Juda and of Israel. Their hopes were blasted. They never occupied any thing belonging to the Israelites, and what they had taken from Juda, as far as Hebron, was recovered.
There, witness of these designs, and guardian of his temple, etc.
35:11
Wrath. The Jews shall treat you as you have threatened to do unto them.
By them, my people. Septuagint, "to thee."
35:13
Haydock
Derogated. Septuagint, "bawled;" or Hebrew, "multiplied your words against me," as if I could not protect my inheritance. (Haydock)
You would pretend to judge me, and to fathom my designs.
35:14
Rejoice. After the captivity, the Machabees shall conquer Edom.
35:15
Calmet
As, etc., is not in the Roman Septuagint. St. Jerome says it was marked with an asterisk, being taken from Theodotion. (Calmet)
Haydock
Grabe supplies to thou shalt. His copy has the rest:..."thou shalt know that I am their Lord." (Haydock)
35:2
This frequent phrase here and in other places signifieth, turne thy speach to speake of such and such people: or, speake boldly and freely fearing no man.
35:5
God accounteth al iniuries done against his Church, as done against himself. So our Sauiour charged Saul persecuting the Church, as persecuting himself. A••. 9. v. 4.
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3. BEHOLD I AM AGAINST YOU (Chaldean: Behold I send my fury upon you), MOUNT SEIR, — that is Edom, or Idumaea: for Esau, the inhabitant of Idumaea, was called Edom, because he was red; and Seir, because he was hairy, Gen. cap. XXXVI, 8 and 9.
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5. BECAUSE, etc., YOU SHUT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. — because, as Obadiah says in verse 14, the Edomites fleeing from the Chaldeans killed the Jews who came to them, and also persecuted and captured others: indeed they besieged and conquered Jerusalem together with the Chaldeans. IN THE TIME OF THEIR UTMOST INIQUITY. — Hebrew: In the time when iniquity came to an end. Thus Vatablus and Pagninus, that is in the time when God put an end to the sins of the Jews, through their destruction: for then the Edomites, joining themselves with the Chaldeans, afflicted and destroyed the Jews. Others, "iniquity," that is punishment, and calamity "utmost." Thus Maldonatus. So that it is a metonymy, by which iniquity is put for the effect and penalty of iniquity. This sense agrees very well with the Hebrew and what precedes. Others, "utmost iniquity," not of the Jews, but of the Edomites. For their supreme crime was to join themselves with the Chaldeans, so that they might overthrow the people of God.
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6. TO BLOOD (that is to slaughter, or to slaughterers and bloodthirsty men) I WILL DELIVER YOU. — The Hebrew word for word is, I will make you blood, as if to say, Thus will I wound and make you bloody, so that you appear to be wholly turned into blood, and to be nothing but blood. AND BLOOD (that is slaughter and slaughterers) WILL PURSUE YOU, — yet they will pursue you. Otherwise Vatablus translates and explains this verse, namely, as if to say, I made you blood, that is a kinsman of the Hebrews, whom you hated, when you ought to have loved them: I will therefore cause blood, that is the avenging of blood, or bloodthirsty men to pursue you. For thus the just vengeance of God pursues murderers, as if the blood of the slain, and the slain themselves, or the ghosts or furies of the slain pursued them. Whence they often seem to see them, and their phantasms are always observed: nor do they allow them to rest, as if they were pursuing them and driving them to death. I have recounted illustrious examples of this matter in Gen. IX, 5, and Deut. XXI, 4.
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8. HIS MOUNTAINS, — the mountains of Seir, that is of Idumaea, of which he now speaks in the singular, now in the plural, understanding its citizens and inhabitants.
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10. TWO NATIONS, etc., SHALL BE MINE (namely Israel and Judah, as if to say, O Idumaea! in hope you had devoured all Judaea and Samaria, and you said: These two nations, that is regions of nations, namely Judaea and Israel or Samaria, are mine), WHEN THE LORD WAS THERE, — that is there was worshipped, and was to Judaea as it were a governor, guardian and king, as if to say, You did not fear the presence of God, and as if, while He was seeing and unwilling, you wished to occupy His land, and as if to drive God from His possession. Thus St. Jerome. See Jer. XLIX, 1.
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11. I WILL ACT ACCORDING TO YOUR ANGER, — that is, as your anger deserves, and, as the Septuagint, enmity and zeal, that is, as the Chaldean, rivalry against your brothers the Jews, as if to say, I will be angry with you, as you were angry with my people: and being angry I will treat you, as you treated him being angry; and I will show my glory, by freeing them, by punishing you, says Maldonatus. I WILL JUDGE, — I will punish.
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12. DESOLATE (namely the mountains of Judaea, by the Jews already slain, or carried away), HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO US TO DEVOUR.
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13. YOU ROSE UP AGAINST ME, — against me. Hebrew: You magnified your mouth against me, that is you insulted me proudly. Thus it is said in Psalm LXXII, verse 8: "They have set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue hath passed through the earth," as if to say, They spared no man, or heavenly being, but were cursed against all, and sharpened and put forth their virulent tongue against all. YOU HAVE MULTIPLIED YOUR WORDS AGAINST ME, — you have detracted from me by your words, which you cast against me: for by them you detracted from my glory. With a similar phrase Seneca said in the Preface of book I of Natural Questions: "To derogate something from the law of fate:" to derogate, that is to detract. Thus we commonly say, "To derogate faith," or "grace to someone." And Tacitus, book I: "In common, he says, let them derogate nothing." With a similar catachresis St. Polycarp wrote in his epistle to the Philippians: "If anyone, he says, has perverted the words of the Lord to his own desires, and said that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, this one is the firstborn of Satan." Perverted, that is twisted, bent, corrupted. In Hebrew it is העתרתם hatartem, that is you have importuned, expostulated, multiplied harsh words against me, that is, proudly and impudently you have cast many bitter and insulting things against me, and against my glory. The Septuagint, you have cried out against me.
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14. LET ALL THE EARTH REJOICE, — that is to say, As thou hast rejoiced in the desolation of Judea: so will I cause that in thy desolation other nations may rejoice, be glad and exult. For it is just that by the measure with which thou hast measured to others, the same should be measured back to thee. This destruction of Idumea was brought about by Nabuchodonosor and the Chaldeans, as Josephus testifies.
Machine translation from the Latin, not reviewed.
35:5
… The description of the collapse of Jerusalem (10-14), rather than to earlier devastations, suggests the total destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 587, when, according to Lam. 4:21 and Ez. 25:11; 35:5-15, Edom rejoiced and enriched itself with the spoils. …
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Vulgata Clementina · original Douay-Rheims (Douay 1609-10), transcription by EEBO-TCP (CC0) · La Sacra Bibbia, tradotta dalla Volgata da Antonio Martini (1769-1781) (LaParola (laparola.net), Martini OSIS text, Public domain (LaParola's electronic edition marks it 'Dominio pubblico')). Public domain.