1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Isaiah 15:5 My heart shall cry to Moab, the bars thereof shall flee unto Segor, a heifer of three years old: for by the ascent of Luith they shall go up weeping: and in the way of Oronaim they shall lift up a cry of destruction.

My. A charitable heart will grieve for the misfortune of an enemy. (Worthington) --- I shall join in the general lamentations, though Moab has always been so great an enemy of Israel. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "the heart of Moab cries in itself to Segor." (Haydock) --- We will retire thither. (Chaldean) --- Bars. Princes. Protestants, "his fugitives shall," etc. --- Heifer. Strong and ungovernable. Hebrew, "to Heglath and to Shelishia for," etc., though we may as well adhere to the Vulgate, Septuagint, etc.