OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 3:8

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8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

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Verse 8. For. The prophet tells what will happen. Menochius.—And their. Septuagint “are sinful, disbelieving what regards the Lord. Wherefore now their glory is brought low.” Bible.—They must have followed a very different Hebrew copy from ours. Calmet.

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When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).

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