2 Kings 19:28 (WEB)
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“For this cause the prophet also said, “Be ye angry, and sin not.”” — editor's note: Ps. iv. 5, LXX., comp. Eph. iv. 26. “Stand in awe, and sin not,” in our version. Another part of the same Hebrew verb is, however, rendered “rage” in our…
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Jerome
“There he has laid upon me the yoke of captivity; there inserting in my nostrils a ring of iron, he has commanded me to sing one of the songs of Zion.” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Kings xix. 28.
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Aphrahat
“Now see that the hook has been forced into thy nostrils, and the bridle into thy lips, and thou hast turned back with thine heart crushed, who camest with thine heart uplifted.” — editor's note: 2 Kings xix. 21–23, 28; Is. xxxvii. 22–24, 29.
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Cross-references · 1
2 Kings 19:28 and Isaiah 37:29 share the same wording (44 words).