Holy Scripture

Isaiah 51:16

A church father on this verse
“And He says that He has placed His words in his mouth. For whatever the Son speaks, the words are of the Father, and He will protect him in the shadow of His hand. And for this reason he will be protected so that he may plant new heavens and pour out a new earth, and say to Zion, that is, to the Church: You are my peo…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

16I will put my words into thy mouth, and I will shelter thee under the shadow of my hand, with which I fixed the sky, and founded the earth: and the Lord shall say to Zion, Thou art my people.

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In context

14For in thy deliverance he shall not halt, nor tarry;

15for I am thy God, that troubles the sea, and causes the waves thereof to roar: the Lord of hosts is my name.

— Isaiah 51:16 —

17Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

18and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thy hand, not even of all the children whom thou hast reared.

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