Lamentationes 6:3

Clementine Latin Vulgate

et dices : Montes Israël, audite verbum Domini Dei. Hæc dicit Dominus Deus montibus et collibus, rupibus et vallibus : Ecce ego inducam super vos gladium, et disperdam excelsa vestra,

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
et dices: [Montes Isra�l,
audite verbum Domini Dei.
H�c dicit Dominus Deus
montibus et collibus,
rupibus et vallibus:
Ecce ego inducam super vos gladium,
et disperdam excelsa vestra,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
et dices: Montes Israel, audite verbum Domini Dei. Haec dicit Dominus Deus montibus et collibus, voraginibus et vallibus: Ecce ego inducam super vos gladium et destruam excelsa vestra;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye: Ezekiel 36:1-4, Ezekiel 36:8, Jeremiah 22:29, Micah 6:2

to the mountains: Jeremiah 2:20, Jeremiah 3:6, Jeremiah 3:23

and I will: Leviticus 26:30, Isaiah 27:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 6:17 - behold Exodus 14:17 - behold Leviticus 26:25 - will bring Jeremiah 17:3 - and thy Jeremiah 23:39 - even I Ezekiel 7:3 - and I Ezekiel 18:2 - the land Ezekiel 33:2 - When I bring the sword upon a land Ezekiel 34:11 - I

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God,.... Since the people of the Jews would not hear the word of the Lord, the mountains are called upon to hear it; unless the inhabitants of the mountains are meant:

thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys: these are addressed, because idols were worshipped here; as upon the mountains and hills, so by rivers of water, and also in valleys, as in the valley of Hinnom idols were worshipped; upon mountains and hills, because they thought themselves nearer to heaven; by rivers, because of purity; and in valleys, because shady and obscure, and had something solemn and venerable in them:

behold I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you; that is, upon the idolaters, which worshipped in these places; otherwise different instruments, as pick axes, c. would have been more proper. The Targum paraphrases it,

"them that kill with the sword''

meaning the Chaldeans, who doubtless are intended:

and I will destroy your high places; the temples and altars, built on high places, and devoted to idolatrous worship, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rivers - Or, “ravines,” which were, like the mountains, favorite seats of idol-rites 2 Kings 23:10.