Holy Scripture

Isaiah 66:11

A church father on this verse
“This struggle is the correction of noble good deeds in them. For their sweat is profitable, and they have youth-like endurance in order to gain not an earthly possession but rather so that they become filled with graces from God and are satisfied in every desire. To these he makes this promise, "Like infants at the br…”
Cyril of Alexandria, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 5:6.66:10-12

Source: Septuagint

Original

11that ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation; that ye may milk out, and delight yourselves with the influx of her glory.

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In context

9But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.

10Rejoice, O Jerusalem, and all ye that love her hold in her a general assembly: rejoice greatly with her, all that now mourn over her:

— Isaiah 66:11 —

12For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.

13As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

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