Lamentationes 40:43

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Et labia earum palmi unius, reflexa intrinsecus per circuitum : super mensas autem carnes oblationis.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et labia earum palmi unius, reflexa intrinsecus per circuitum: super mensas autem carnes oblationis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[40:42b] super ista ponant vasa, quibus mactetur holocaustum et victima, [40:43b] super mensas autem carnes oblationis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

within: These were probably for hanging up the victims in order to flay them.

hooks: or, end-irons, or, the two hearth-stones

upon: Leviticus 1:6, Leviticus 1:8, Leviticus 8:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And within were hooks, a hand broad, fastened round about,.... These, very probably, were fastened on the posts of the gate, near which were the washing room for the sacrifices, Ezekiel 40:38, on which they were hung, when they were flayed, or the skin took off: in the slaughter house in the second temple, to the north of the altar, there were eight low stone pillars, upon which were boards of cedar foursquare, and iron hooks were fixed in them; and there were three rows of them in each, on which they hung the sacrifices s, which were one above another; on the lowest they hung a lamb, on the middlemost a ram, and on the highest a bullock; these hooks stood out a hand's breadth from the pillars t: such like iron hooks were fixed on the walls and pillars in the court, where they slew the passover lamb, on which they hung it, and skinned it u: this may denote either, as Cocceius suggests, the exaltation of Christ, who suffered and was raised for our justification; or rather the lifting of him up, and holding him forth to view, as a suffering Saviour, in the ministry of the word, and in the ordinance of the supper.

And upon the tables was the flesh of the offering: here another word is used, and may design that part of the flesh of the sin offering that was eaten by the priest, Leviticus 6:25 so that these tables were feasting tables also; as the table of the Lord, or the ordinance of the Lord's supper, is a feast of fat things, a feast of love; a table where the flesh of Christ is laid, which is meat indeed, and only to be fed upon by those that are made kings and priests unto God. Now these tables being many show that there will be a large number of Gospel churches everywhere; and wherever they are there will be tables: the ordinance of the Lord's supper will be celebrated in the four parts of the world; at present it is chiefly in the northern part, and where these tables were seen in this vision.

s Misn. Tamid, c. 3. sect. 5. & Middot, c. 3. sect. 5. t Lipman. Tzurath Beth Hamikdash, sect. 34. u Misn. Pesachim, c. 5. sect. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hooks - The alternative renderings given in the margin indicate the doubtfulness of the translation of the original word. The form is dual, and indicates that it is some object usually found in pairs. Some suggest that they were borders or ledges set, on either side of the tables, a handbreadth from the edges, to prevent the instruments placed on them from falling off. If the rendering “hooks” be adopted, it is to be explained thus: that these hooks were set on the wall “within,” that each hook was forked (hence, the “dual” form), and projected from the wall one span; and that on these hooks were hung the carcasses of the slain animals.