Isaiæ 50:38

Nova Vulgata

Siccitas super aquas eius erit, et arescent, quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis insaniunt.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Siccitas super aquas ejus erit, et arescent, quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis gloriantur.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Siccitas super aquas ejus erit, et arescent,
quia terra sculptilium est, et in portentis gloriantur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A drought: Jeremiah 50:12, Jeremiah 51:32-36, Isaiah 44:27, Revelation 16:12, Revelation 17:15, Revelation 17:16

the land: Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:52, Isaiah 46:1-7, Daniel 3:1-30, Daniel 5:4, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19, Revelation 17:5

mad: Jeremiah 51:7, Isaiah 44:25, Acts 17:16

Reciprocal: Judges 6:30 - Bring Judges 18:24 - what have Isaiah 21:9 - all Isaiah 57:5 - Enflaming Jeremiah 51:36 - and I will Jeremiah 51:37 - become Ezekiel 23:5 - doted Ezekiel 30:12 - I will make Hosea 5:4 - for Acts 17:22 - I perceive Acts 19:28 - and cried

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A drought [is] upon her waters, and they shall be dried up,.... Either on the waters of the land of Chaldea in general, from whence should follow barrenness, and so a want of the necessaries of life; hence Kimchi interprets it of a consumption of riches, and all good things; or on the waters of Babylon, the river Euphrates, which ran through it; the channel of which was diverted by Cyrus, and drained and made so dry, that he marched his army up it into the city. Some say Babylon was taken three times, by this stratagem of turning the river Euphrates another way; first by Semiramis; and after Cyrus by Alexander: this may well be applied to the drying up of the river Euphrates, upon the pouring out of the sixth vial, and to the destruction of the antichristian states, signified by the many waters on which the great whore of Babylon or Rome sitteth, Revelation 16:12;

for it [is] the land of graven images; much given to idolatry; had idols of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone, Daniel 5:2;

and they are mad upon [their] idols; greatly affected, and much devoted to them; superstitiously mad upon them: or, "they gloried in them"; as the Targum, Vulgate Latin version, and others p; they praised and extolled them as true deities; as Belshazzar and his nobles did the very night Babylon was taken, Daniel 5:4; and this their idolatry was one cause of their ruin. The word q for "idols" signifies "terrors", or terrible things; because their worshippers stood in fear of them, as Kimchi observes.

p יתהללו "gloriantur", Vulg. Lat. Schmidt, Munster, Tigurine version. q באימים "horrendis" vel "terriculamentis", Schmidt, Munster, Calvin; "terricula", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A drought - Rather, “a sword,” i. e., military skill and forethought.

They are mad upon their idols - Omit their. The word for idols, literally terrors Psalms 88:16 is used in this one place only of objects of worship. Probably it refers to those montrous forms invented as representations of their deities.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 50:38. A drought is upon her waters — May not this refer to the draining of the channel of the Euphrates, by which the army of Cyrus entered the city. See on Jeremiah 50:24. The original is, however, חרב chereb, a sword, as in the preceding verses, which signifies war, or any calamity by which the thing on which it falls is ruined.