Lamentations 3 #catechesis/bible/lamentations
[!abstract] Third alphabetical cycle.
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GR ἐγὼ ἀνὴρ ὁ βλέπων πτωχείαν ἐν ῥάβδῳ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπ’ ἐμέ
LA Aleph. Ego vir videns paupertatem meam in virga indignationis ejus.
EN Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
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GR παρέλαβέν με καὶ ἀπήγαγεν εἰς σκότος καὶ οὐ φῶς
LA Aleph. Me minavit, et adduxit in tenebras, et non in lucem.
EN Aleph. He has led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.
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GR πλὴν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπέστρεψεν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
LA Aleph. Tantum in me vertit et convertit manum suam tota die.
EN Aleph. Only against me he has turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
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GR ἐπαλαίωσεν σάρκας μου καὶ δέρμα μου ὀστέα μου συνέτριψεν
LA Beth. Vetustam fecit pellem meam et carnem meam; contrivit ossa mea.
EN Beth. My skin and my flesh he has made old, he has broken my bones.
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GR ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ ἐκύκλωσεν κεφαλήν μου καὶ ἐμόχθησεν
LA Beth. Ædificavit in gyro meo, et circumdedit me felle et labore.
EN Beth. He has built round about me, and he has compassed me with gall, and labour.
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GR ἐν σκοτεινοῖς ἐκάθισέν με ὡς νεκροὺς αἰῶνος
LA Beth. In tenebrosis collocavit me, quasi mortuos sempiternos.
EN Beth. He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
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GR ἀνῳκοδόμησεν κατ’ ἐμοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσομαι ἐβάρυνεν χαλκόν μου
LA Ghimel. Circumædificavit adversum me, ut non egrediar; aggravavit compedem meum.
EN Ghimel. He has built against me round about, that I may not get out: he has made my fetters heavy.
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GR καί γε κεκράξομαι καὶ βοήσω ἀπέφραξεν προσευχήν μου
LA Ghimel. Sed et cum clamavero, et rogavero, exclusit orationem meam.
EN Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he has shut out my prayer.
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GR ἀνῳκοδόμησεν ὁδούς μου ἐνέφραξεν τρίβους μου ἐτάραξεν
LA Ghimel. Conclusit vias meas lapidibus quadris; semitas meas subvertit.
EN Ghimel. He has shut up my ways with square stones, he has turned my paths upside down.
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GR ἄρκος ἐνεδρεύουσα αὐτός μοι λέων ἐν κρυφαίοις
LA Daleth. Ursus insidians factus est mihi, leo in absconditis.
EN Daleth. He has become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
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GR κατεδίωξεν ἀφεστηκότα καὶ κατέπαυσέν με ἔθετό με ἠφανισμένην
LA Daleth. Semitas meas subvertit, et confregit me; posuit me desolatam.
EN Daleth. He has turned aside my paths, and has broken me in pieces, he has made me desolate.
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GR ἐνέτεινεν τόξον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐστήλωσέν με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος
LA Daleth. Tetendit arcum suum, et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam.
EN Daleth. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
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GR εἰσήγαγεν τοῖς νεφροῖς μου ἰοὺς φαρέτρας αὐτοῦ
LA He. Misit in renibus meis filias pharetræ suæ.
EN He. He has shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
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GR ἐγενήθην γέλως παντὶ λαῷ μου ψαλμὸς αὐτῶν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
LA He. Factus sum in derisum omni populo meo, canticum eorum tota die.
EN He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
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GR ἐχόρτασέν με πικρίας ἐμέθυσέν με χολῆς
LA He. Replevit me amaritudinibus; inebriavit me absinthio.
EN He. He has filled me with bitterness, he has inebriated me with wormwood.
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GR καὶ ἐξέβαλεν ψήφῳ ὀδόντας μου ἐψώμισέν με σποδόν
LA Vau. Et fregit ad numerum dentes meos; cibavit me cinere.
EN Vau. And he has broken my teeth one by one, he has fed me with ashes.
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GR καὶ ἀπώσατο ἐξ εἰρήνης ψυχήν μου ἐπελαθόμην ἀγαθὰ
LA Vau. Et repulsa est a pace anima mea; oblitus sum bonorum.
EN Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.
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GR καὶ εἶπα ἀπώλετο νεῖκός μου καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἀπὸ κυρίου
LA Vau. Et dixi: Periit finis meus, et spes mea a Domino.
EN Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.
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GR ἐμνήσθην ἀπὸ πτωχείας μου καὶ ἐκ διωγμοῦ μου πικρίας καὶ χολῆς μου
LA Zain. Recordare paupertatis, et transgressionis meæ, absinthii et fellis.
EN Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
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GR μνησθήσεται καὶ καταδολεσχήσει ἐπ’ ἐμὲ ἡ ψυχή μου
LA Zain. Memoria memor ero, et tabescet in me anima mea.
EN Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.
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GR ταύτην τάξω εἰς τὴν καρδίαν μου διὰ τοῦτο ὑπομενῶ
LA Zain. Hæc recolens in corde meo, ideo sperabo.
EN Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.
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LA Heth. Misericordiæ Domini, quia non sumus consumpti; quia non defecerunt miserationes ejus.
EN Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
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LA Heth. Novi diluculo, multa est fides tua.
EN Heth. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness.
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LA Heth. Pars mea Dominus, dixit anima mea; propterea exspectabo eum.
EN Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.
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GR ἀγαθὸς κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσιν αὐτόν ψυχῇ ἣ ζητήσει αὐτὸν ἀγαθὸν
LA Teth. Bonus est Dominus sperantibus in eum, animæ quærenti illum.
EN Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
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GR καὶ ὑπομενεῖ καὶ ἡσυχάσει εἰς τὸ σωτήριον κυρίου
LA Teth. Bonum est præstolari cum silentio salutare Dei.
EN Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
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GR ἀγαθὸν ἀνδρὶ ὅταν ἄρῃ ζυγὸν ἐν νεότητι αὐτοῦ
LA Teth. Bonum est viro cum portaverit jugum ab adolescentia sua.
EN Teth. It is good for a man, when he has borne the yoke from his youth.
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GR καθήσεται κατὰ μόνας καὶ σιωπήσεται ὅτι ἦρεν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ
LA Jod. Sedebit solitarius, et tacebit, quia levavit super se.
EN Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he has taken it up upon himself.
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LA Jod. Ponet in pulvere os suum, si forte sit spes.
EN Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
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GR δώσει τῷ παίοντι αὐτὸν σιαγόνα χορτασθήσεται ὀνειδισμῶν
LA Jod. Dabit percutienti se maxillam: saturabitur opprobriis.
EN Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that strikes him, he shall be filled with reproaches.
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GR ὅτι οὐκ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἀπώσεται κύριος
LA Caph. Quia non repellet in sempiternum Dominus.
EN Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
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GR ὅτι ὁ ταπεινώσας οἰκτιρήσει κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ ἐλέους αὐτοῦ
LA Caph. Quia si abjecit, et miserebitur, secundum multitudinem misericordiarum suarum.
EN Caph. For if he has cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.
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GR ὅτι οὐκ ἀπεκρίθη ἀπὸ καρδίας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐταπείνωσεν υἱοὺς ἀνδρός
LA Caph. Non enim humiliavit ex corde suo et abjecit filios hominum.
EN Caph. For he has not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.
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GR τοῦ ταπεινῶσαι ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ πάντας δεσμίους γῆς
LA Lamed. Ut conteret sub pedibus suis omnes vinctos terræ.
EN Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
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GR τοῦ ἐκκλῖναι κρίσιν ἀνδρὸς κατέναντι προσώπου ὑψίστου
LA Lamed. Ut declinaret judicium viri in conspectu vultus Altissimi.
EN Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,
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GR καταδικάσαι ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαι αὐτὸν κύριος οὐκ εἶπεν
LA Lamed. Ut perverteret hominem in judicio suo; Dominus ignoravit.
EN Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord has not approved.
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GR τίς οὕτως εἶπεν καὶ ἐγενήθη κύριος οὐκ ἐνετείλατο
LA Mem. Quis est iste qui dixit ut fieret, Domino non jubente?
EN Mem. Who is he that has commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commands it not?
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GR ἐκ στόματος ὑψίστου οὐκ ἐξελεύσεται τὰ κακὰ καὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν
LA Mem. Ex ore Altissimi non egredientur nec mala nec bona?
EN Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?
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GR τί γογγύσει ἄνθρωπος ζῶν ἀνὴρ περὶ τῆς ἁμαρτίας αὐτοῦ
LA Mem. Quid murmuravit homo vivens, vir pro peccatis suis?
EN Mem. Why has a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?
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GR ἐξηρευνήθη ἡ ὁδὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἠτάσθη καὶ ἐπιστρέψωμεν ἕως κυρίου
LA Nun. Scrutemur vias nostras, et quæramus, et revertamur ad Dominum.
EN Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.
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GR ἀναλάβωμεν καρδίας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ χειρῶν πρὸς ὑψηλὸν ἐν οὐρανῷ
LA Nun. Levemus corda nostra cum manibus ad Dominum in cælos.
EN Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
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GR ἡμαρτήσαμεν ἠσεβήσαμεν καὶ οὐχ ἱλάσθης
LA Nun. Nos inique egimus, et ad iracundiam provocavimus; idcirco tu inexorabilis es.
EN Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked you to wrath: therefore you are inexorable.
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GR ἐπεσκέπασας ἐν θυμῷ καὶ ἀπεδίωξας ἡμᾶς ἀπέκτεινας οὐκ ἐφείσω
LA Samech. Operuisti in furore, et percussisti nos; occidisti, nec pepercisti.
EN Samech. You have covered in your wrath, and have struck us: you have killed and have not spared.
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GR ἐπεσκέπασας νεφέλην σεαυτῷ εἵνεκεν προσευχῆς
LA Samech. Opposuisti nubem tibi, ne transeat oratio.
EN Samech. You have set a cloud before you, that our prayer may not pass through.
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GR καμμύσαι με καὶ ἀπωσθῆναι ἔθηκας ἡμᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λαῶν
LA Samech. Eradicationem et abjectionem posuisti me in medio populorum.
EN Samech. You have made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
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GR διήνοιξαν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν
LA Phe. Aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici.
EN Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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GR φόβος καὶ θυμὸς ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν ἔπαρσις καὶ συντριβή
LA Phe. Formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio, et contritio.
EN Phe. Prophecy has become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
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GR ἀφέσεις ὑδάτων κατάξει ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπὶ τὸ σύντριμμα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου
LA Phe. Divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus, in contritione filiæ populi mei.
EN Phe. My eye has run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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GR ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου κατεπόθη καὶ οὐ σιγήσομαι τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἔκνηψιν
LA Ain. Oculus meus afflictus est, nec tacuit, eo quod non esset requies.
EN Ain. My eye is afflicted, and has not been quiet, because there was no rest:
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GR ἕως οὗ διακύψῃ καὶ ἴδῃ κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ
LA Ain. Donec respiceret et videret Dominus de cælis.
EN Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
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GR ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπιφυλλιεῖ ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχήν μου παρὰ πάσας θυγατέρας πόλεως
LA Ain. Oculus meus deprædatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meæ.
EN Ain. My eye has wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
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GR θηρεύοντες ἐθήρευσάν με ὡς στρουθίον οἱ ἐχθροί μου δωρεάν
LA Sade. Venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis.
EN Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
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GR ἐθανάτωσαν ἐν λάκκῳ ζωήν μου καὶ ἐπέθηκαν λίθον ἐπ’ ἐμοί
LA Sade. Lapsa est in lacum vita mea, et posuerunt lapidem super me.
EN Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
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GR ὑπερεχύθη ὕδωρ ἐπὶ κεφαλήν μου εἶπα ἀπῶσμαι
LA Sade. Inundaverunt aquæ super caput meum; dixi: Perii.
EN Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.
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GR ἐπεκαλεσάμην τὸ ὄνομά σου κύριε ἐκ λάκκου κατωτάτου
LA Coph. Invocavi nomen tuum, Domine, de lacu novissimo.
EN Coph. I have called upon your name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.
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GR φωνήν μου ἤκουσας μὴ κρύψῃς τὰ ὦτά σου εἰς τὴν δέησίν μου
LA Coph. Vocem meam audisti; ne avertas aurem tuam a singultu meo et clamoribus.
EN Coph. You have heard my voice: turn not away your ear from my sighs, and cries.
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GR εἰς τὴν βοήθειάν μου ἤγγισας ἐν ᾗ σε ἡμέρᾳ ἐπεκαλεσάμην εἶπάς μοι μὴ φοβοῦ
LA Coph. Appropinquasti in die quando invocavi te; dixisti: Ne timeas.
EN Coph. You drew near in the day, when I called upon you, you said: Fear not.
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GR ἐδίκασας κύριε τὰς δίκας τῆς ψυχῆς μου ἐλυτρώσω τὴν ζωήν μου
LA Res. Judicasti, Domine, causam animæ meæ, redemptor vitæ meæ.
EN Res. You have judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, you the Redeemer of my life.
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GR εἶδες κύριε τὰς ταραχάς μου ἔκρινας τὴν κρίσιν μου
LA Res. Vidisti, Domine, iniquitatem illorum adversum me: judica judicium meum.
EN Res. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge my judgment.
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GR εἶδες πᾶσαν τὴν ἐκδίκησιν αὐτῶν εἰς πάντας διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν ἐν ἐμοί
LA Res. Vidisti omnem furorem, universas cogitationes eorum adversum me.
EN Res. You have seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
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GR ἤκουσας τὸν ὀνειδισμὸν αὐτῶν πάντας τοὺς διαλογισμοὺς αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ
LA Sin. Audisti opprobrium eorum, Domine, omnes cogitationes eorum adversum me.
EN Sin. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.
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GR χείλη ἐπανιστανομένων μοι καὶ μελέτας αὐτῶν κατ’ ἐμοῦ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν
LA Sin. Labia insurgentium mihi, et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die.
EN Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.
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GR καθέδραν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀνάστασιν αὐτῶν ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν
LA Sin. Sessionem eorum et resurrectionem eorum vide; ego sum psalmus eorum.
EN Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
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GR ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ἀνταπόδομα κύριε κατὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν
LA Thau. Redes eis vicem, Domine, juxta opera manuum suarum.
EN Thau. You shall render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
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GR ἀποδώσεις αὐτοῖς ὑπερασπισμὸν καρδίας μόχθον σου αὐτοῖς
LA Thau. Dabis eis scutum cordis, laborem tuum.
EN Thau. You shall give them a buckler of heart, your labour.
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GR καταδιώξεις ἐν ὀργῇ καὶ ἐξαναλώσεις αὐτοὺς ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κύριε
LA Thau. Persequeris in furore, et conteres eos sub cælis, Domine.
EN Thau. You shall persecute them in anger, and shall destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
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