Holy Scripture

Isaiah 54:7

A church father on this verse
“I seem, indeed, to hear that voice from him who gathers together those who are broken and welcomes the oppressed.… The measure of his kindness exceeds the measure of his discipline. The former things were owing to our wickedness, the present things to the adorable Trinity, the former for our cleansing, the present for…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — THE LAST FAREWELL, ORATION 42:7

Source: Septuagint

Original

7For a little while I left thee: but with great mercy will I have compassion upon thee.

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5For it is the Lord that made thee; the Lord of hosts is his name: and he that delivered thee, he is the God of Israel, and shall be called so by the whole earth.

6The Lord has not called thee as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, saith thy God.

— Isaiah 54:7 —

8In a little wrath I turned away my face from thee; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon thee, saith the Lord that delivers thee.

9From the time of the water of Noah this is my purpose: as I swore to him at that time, saying of the earth, I will no more be wroth with thee, neither when thou art threatened,

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