Holy Scripture

Isaiah 5:17

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 17) And the lambs will be fed in their order: and the deserted places will be turned into abundance, and strangers will feast upon them. Instead of the lambs being fed in their order, which is understood in a positive sense, I do not know what the LXX, desiring something else, translated as 'they will be fed as…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

17And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

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In context

15And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.

16But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness.

— Isaiah 5:17 —

18Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:

19who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.

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