Holy Scripture

Isaiah 28:21

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 21, 22.) For just as the Lord will stand on the mountain of divisions, and will be angry in the valley of Gibeon, to do his work, his strange work, to carry out his task, his alien task. And now do not mock: lest perhaps your chains be tightened. For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a conclusion and an a…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

21The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the Valley of Gibeon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

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In context

19Whenever it shall pass by, it shall take you; morning by morning it shall pass by in the day, and in the night there shall be an evil hope. Learn to hear,

20ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.

— Isaiah 28:21 —

22Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.

23Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.

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