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Isaiah 65:1

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“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

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Verse 1. Me. God answers the preceding prayer, and announces the rejection of the synagogue, alluding to the armies which prevailed in the days of the Machabees.—Not. Saint Paul explains this of the conversion of the Gentiles. Romans 10:20. Calmet.—It cannot regard the Jews, who are spoken of in the next verse. Worthington.

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