Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ainsi parle l'Eternel des armées: Les larges murailles de Babylone seront renversées, Ses hautes portes seront brûlées par le feu; Ainsi les peuples auront travaillé en vain, Les nations se seront fatiguées pour le feu.
KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)
eam laborando. Hinc, ut Isaias [Jeremias] ait: «Murus Babylonis altissimus suffossione suffodietur (Jer. LI, 58) ,» utpote in plano [Col. 1770D] situs in terra «Sennar,» in campo «Dura (Dan. III, 1) ,» cujus prima turris confusione linguarum destructa est. Turris ergo talis, in…
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