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Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
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Verse 1. Spoilest. This is particularly directed to Sennacherib. Challoner.—He was a figure of persecutors of the Church, to which many passages here allude. Calmet.—Remotâ justitiâ quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. iv. 4.—Sennacherib plundered Samaria and Juda, and despising God, was himself contemned. Worthington.
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