Lamentationes 5:2

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Tertiam partem igni combures in medio civitatis, juxta completionem dierum obsidionis, et assumes tertiam partem, et concides gladio in circuitu ejus: tertiam vero aliam disperges in ventum, et gladium nudabo post eos.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
H�reditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostr� ad extraneos.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Tertiam partem igne combures in medio civitatis, post completionem dierum obsidionis; et assumens tertiam partem, concides gladio in circuitu eius; tertiam vero aliam disperges in ventum, et gladium nudabo post eos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shalt burn: Ezekiel 5:12, Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 9:22, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 24:10, Jeremiah 38:2

the city: Ezekiel 4:1-8

I will draw: Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 12:14, Leviticus 26:33, Jeremiah 9:16, Amos 9:2, Amos 9:3

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 25:11 - the rest Job 30:22 - liftest me Psalms 68:1 - be scattered Isaiah 24:1 - scattereth Jeremiah 12:12 - the sword Jeremiah 13:24 - will Jeremiah 24:9 - to be removed Jeremiah 31:10 - He Jeremiah 49:37 - I will send the sword Ezekiel 5:10 - the whole Ezekiel 6:8 - General Amos 9:4 - go Zechariah 13:8 - two

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou, shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,.... Of Jerusalem, as portrayed upon the tile, Ezekiel 4:1; or the prophet was now in Chaldea. The burning of the third part of the hair with fire denotes such who were destroyed by the pestilence and famine during the siege; see Lamentations 5:10; or it denotes the burning of the city itself, when the siege was over; since it follows:

when the days of the siege are fulfilled; for, when it was taken, it was burnt with fire, Jeremiah 52:13;

and thou shall take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife; which designs those that fled out of the city whim it was broken up, and were pursued after, and overtook by the Chaldean army, and cut off by the sword, Jeremiah 52:7;

and a third part thou shall scatter in the wind; which intends those that fled, and were dispersed into several countries, as Moab, Ammon, and especially Egypt, whither many went along with Johanan the son of Kareah, Jeremiah 43:5;

and I will draw out a sword after them; and destroy them; which, as it was threatened, Jeremiah 42:16; so it was accomplished when Egypt was subdued by Nebuchadnezzar. The Septuagint and Arabic versions, in every clause, read a "fourth part", instead of a "third"; but wrongly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“The third part burnt in the midst of the city” represents those who perished within the city during the siege; “the third part smitten about it” (the city) “with” the sword, those who were killed about the city during the same period: “the third part scattered to the wind” those who after the siege were dispersed in foreign lands.

In the midst of the city - The prophet is in exile, and is to do this in the midst of Jerusalem. His action being ideal is fitly assigned to the place which the prophecy concerns.

When the days of the siege are fulfilled - i. e., “when the days of the figurative representation of the siege are fulfilled.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 5:2. Ezekiel 5:1.