OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 64:5

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You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

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Verse 5. Thee. The little band of Judas was sincerely attached to the Lord. 2 Maccabees 1:3.—Sinned. This excited thy anger. Yet thou wilt shew mercy. Sin is often put for punishment. Calmet.—Vau means also, “for, and, yet.” Prot. “for we have sinned.” But we follow Saint Jerome and the Vulg. Worthington.

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