Isaias 64:10
The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert, Sion is made a desert, Jerusalem is desolate.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Civitas Sancti tui facta est deserta, Sion deserta facta est, Jerusalem desolata est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πόλις τοῦ ἁγίου σου ἐγενήθη ἔρημος Σειών· ὡς ἔρημος ἐγενήθη Ἰερουσαλήμ· εἰς κατάραν
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Isaias 64:9
- עָרֵ֥י קָדְשְׁךָ֖ הָי֣וּ מִדְבָּ֑ר צִיּוֹן֙ מִדְבָּ֣ר הָיָ֔תָה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם שְׁמָמָֽה
Haydock's commentary
Desolate, under Antiochus Epiphanes, 1 Machabees i. 31., and iv. 38. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr The First Apology, Chapter XLVII. Desolation of Judæa
That the land of the Jews, then, was to be laid waste, hear what was said by the Spirit of prophecy. And the words were spoken as if from the person of the people wondering at what had happened. They are these: “Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. The house of our sanctuary has become a curse, and the glory which our fathers blessed is burned up with fire, and all its glorious things are laid waste: and Thou refrainest Thyself at these things, and hast held Thy peace, and hast humbled us very sore.” And ye are convinced that Jerusalem has been laid waste, as was predicted. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).