Isaias 38:15
What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quid dicam, aut quid respondebit mihi, cum ipse fecerit ? Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animæ meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- מָֽה אֲדַבֵּ֥ר וְאָֽמַר לִ֖י וְה֣וּא עָשָׂ֑ה אֶדַּדֶּ֥ה כָל שְׁנוֹתַ֖י עַל מַ֥ר נַפְשִֽׁי
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great, To Anastasius, Bishop of Antioch
I have received the letters of your most sweet Blessedness, which flowed with tears for words. For I saw in them a cloud flying aloft as clouds do; but, though it carried with it a darkness of sorrow, I could not easily discover at its commencement whence it came or whither it was going, since by reason of the darkness I speak of I did not fully understand its origin. Yet it becomes you, most holy ones, ever to recall to mind what the preacher to the Gentiles says; In the last times perilous times shall be at hand, and there shall be men loving themselves, covetous, lifted up ( 1 Tim. iv. 1 ); and what follows, which it would be a trouble for me to speak, and which is not necessary for you to hear. Lo, in your holy old age, your Blessedness labours under many tribulations; but consider in whose seat you sit. …