Holy Scripture

Isaiah 21:15

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 13 onwards) Burden in Arabia. In the evening you will sleep in the thicket, in the paths of Dodanim. Bring water to the thirsty ones you encounter: you who live in the land of the South, offer bread to the ones fleeing. Because they have fled from the swords, from the menacing sword, from the drawn bow, from th…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

15meet the fugitives with bread, because of the multitude of the slain, and because of the multitude of them that lose their way, and because of the multitude of swords, and because of the multitude of bent bows, and because of the multitude of them that have fallen in war.

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In context

13Thou mayest lodge in the forest in the evening, or in the way of Dedan.

14Ye that dwell in the country of Tema, bring water to meet him that is thirsty;

— Isaiah 21:15 —

16For thus said the Lord to me, Yet a year, as the year of a hireling, and the glory of the sons of Kedar shall fail:

17and the remnant of the strong bows of the sons of Kedar shall be small: for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.

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