Lamentationes 39:14

Nova Vulgata

Et viros iugiter constituent lustrantes terram, qui sepeliant eos, qui remanserant super faciem terrae, ut emundent eam; post menses autem septem quaerere incipient

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et viros jugiter constituent lustrantes terram, qui sepeliant et requirant eos qui remanserant super faciem terræ, ut emundent eam : post menses autem septem quærere incipient.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et viros jugiter constituent lustrantes terram,
qui sepeliant et requirant eos qui remanserant super faciem terræ,
ut emundent eam:
post menses autem septem quærere incipient.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they shall: Numbers 19:11-19

continual employment: Heb. continuance

to cleanse: Ezekiel 39:12

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall sever out men of continual employment,.... That is, the principal of the house of Israel, their magistrates and governors, shall select certain persons, to be daily employed in the following work, till ended:

passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it; these men will be appointed to go through the land of Israel, to gather up such carcasses and bones of dead men as remain anywhere after the seven months' burial before observed; and all passengers or travellers shall be assisting to them in it, both in directing where any such carcasses and bones may lie, and in bringing them to the common place of burial; that so the land may he thoroughly cleansed from such disagreeable objects:

after the end of seven months shall they search or begin to search, as the Targum; when seven months are ended, in which the people in general will be employed in burying the dead; these men before mentioned will be sent out into each part of the land, to search in caves, and dens and ditches; among thickets, thorns, and briers, where the slain may fall; or where soldiers, being wounded, might betake themselves and die; or their carcasses or bones be dragged and left by beasts and fowls; to find them out, and bring them to the place of interment.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Men of continual employment - literally, as margin, i. e., men regularly appointed to this business. As the land of Israel represents figuratively the Church of Christ, the purification of that land is a proper part of the figure to indicate such a sanctification and cleansing of His Church, as Paul describes Ephesians 5:26-27.