Holy Scripture

Isaiah 9:16

A church father on this verse
“He [Paul] lived not to himself but to Christ and his preaching. He crucified the world to himself, and being crucified to the world and the things which are seen, he thought all things little and too small to be desired. [He thought this] even though from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum he had fully preached th…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT, ORATION 2:56

Source: Septuagint

Original

16Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have pity on their orphans or on their widows: for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is yet exalted.

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In context

14the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

15And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.

— Isaiah 9:16 —

17And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.

18The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burned by fire: no man shall pity his brother.

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