OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 66:6

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A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that repays his enemies what they deserve.

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Verse 6. Lord, who is about to quit the temple, and to abandon the Jews to their internal dissensions, and to the arms of the Romans. Many prodigies announced this judgment. Calmet.—One Jesus cried for seven years and five months, “Woe to the temple,” and so forth At last he cried, “Woe to myself;” when he was shot dead. Jos. Bel. vii. 12. Tacit. Hist. v.—Angels were heard crying in the temple, “Let us go hence.” Jos.—There was contradiction in the city. Psalms 54. Saint Jerome Worthington.

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