“"And my people has not understood me." They have not understood me, he says, that I am more brilliant than the sun. "Woe to a sinful people." This also is typical of the prophets, to grieve over one who is sick with an incurable illness. Jeremiah does this in many places, and Christ as well, saying, "Woe to you, Chora…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 1:3
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7For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
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5Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6Ye were sold to the nations, not for your destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
— Baruch 4:7 —
8Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
9For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;