“(Verse 18, 19.) Why have you made us err, O Lord, from your ways: you have hardened our heart, so that we would not fear you? Turn again for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance. Your holy people have possessed nothing: our enemies have trampled upon your sanctuary. We have become like in the begi…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah
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18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
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16Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
— Isaiah 63:18 —
19We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.