Holy Scripture

Isaiah 27:8

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 8) When it has measured out against the measure, you shall judge it. LXX: He will send them out, quarreling and reproaching. According to the Hebrew sense here: As Jerusalem has done, so she will receive, and according to the measure with which she has measured, it will be measured to her in return. And then sh…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

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In context

6they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.

7Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew, shall he be thus slain?

— Isaiah 27:8 —

9Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

10The flock that dwelt there shall be left, as a deserted flock; and the ground shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks lie down to rest.

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