Isaias 9:13
And the people are not returned to him who hath struck them, and have not sought after the Lord of hosts.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et populus non est reversus ad percutientem se, et Dominum exercituum non inquisierunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ὁ λαὸς οὐκ ἐπεστράφη ἕως ἐπλήγη, καὶ τὸν κύριον οὐκ ἐζήτησαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Isaias 9:12
- וְהָעָ֥ם לֹא שָׁ֖ב עַד הַמַּכֵּ֑הוּ וְאֶת יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת לֹ֥א דָרָֽשׁוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory Nazianzen On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail
15. Let us be assured that to do no wrong is really superhuman, and belongs to God alone. I say nothing about the Angels, that we may give no room for wrong feelings, nor opportunity for harmful altercations. Our unhealed condition arises from our evil and unsubdued nature, and from the exercise of its powers. Our repentance when we sin, is a human action, but an action which bespeaks a good man, belonging to that portion which is in the way of salvation. …
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How those who fear scourges and those who contemn them are to be admonished
But, on the other hand, those whom not even scourges restrain from iniquities are to be smitten with sharper rebuke in proportion as they have grown hard with greater insensibility. For generally they are to be disdained without disdain, and despaired of without despair, so, to wit, that the despair exhibited may strike them with dread, and admonition following may bring them back to hope. Sternly, therefore, against them should the Divine judgments be set forth, that they may be recalled by consideration of eternal retribution to knowledge of themselves. For let them hear that in them is fulfilled that which is written, If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, as if with a pestle pounding barley, his foolishness will not be taken away from him ( Prov. xxvii. 22 ). …