Holy Scripture

Isaiah 29:21

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 21). Why do people sin in words and overthrow the one who argues at the gate? And they turned away in vain from the just. But the demons, themselves wicked, made all men sin in speech, blaspheming with various teachings, and they would overthrow the one reproaching in the gate and in judgment as much as they co…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

21and they that cause men to sin by a word: and men shall make all that reprove in the gates an offense, because they have unjustly turned aside the righteous.

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In context

19and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and they that had no hope among men shall be filled with joy.

20The lawless man has come to nought, and the proud man has perished, and they that transgress mischievously have been utterly destroyed:

— Isaiah 29:21 —

22Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the house of Jacob, whom he set apart from Abraham, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall he now change countenance.

23But when their children shall have seen my works, they shall sanctify my name for my sake, and they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

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