Holy Scripture

Isaiah 63:14

A church father on this verse
“"Like cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest. So you did lead your people." Through all these words that the prophet speaks about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, he leads the mind back to the wonders that God performed by means of his servant Moses, whom he called the sheph…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 63:14

Source: Septuagint

Original

14and as cattle through a plain: the Spirit came down from the Lord, and guided them: thus thou leddest thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

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In context

12who led Moses with his right hand, the arm of his glory? he forced the water to separate from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

13He led them through the deep, as a horse through the wilderness, and they fainted not,

— Isaiah 63:14 —

15Turn from heaven, and look from thy holy habitation and from thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength? where is the abundance of thy mercy and of thy compassions, that thou hast withholden thyself from us?

16For thou art our Father; for though Abraham knew us not, and Israel did not acknowledge us, yet do thou, O Lord, our Father, deliver us: thy name has been upon us from the beginning.

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