OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 49:5

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Now the LORD, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in the LORD’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

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Verse 5. Will not. Hebrew Septuagint and so forth “to be gathered.” Bible.—The original text, independent of the Masorets, may have the sense of the Vulg. Yet there are other proofs of the synagogue’s rejection. Calmet.—Prot. “though Israel be not gathered, yet,” and so forth Margin, or “that Israel may be gathered, and I may,” and so forth Bible.

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