1 In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea. 2 In that day, the vineyard of pure wine will sing to them. 3 I am the Lord, who watches over it. I will suddenly give drink to it. I will watch over it, night and day, lest perhaps someone visit against it. 4 Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together. 5 Or will he, instead, take hold of my strength? Will he make peace with me? Will she make peace with me? 6 As they advance with violence against Jacob, Israel will flourish and spring forth, and they will fill the face of the world with offspring. 7 Has he struck him with the scourge that he himself used to strike others? Or has he killed in the manner that he himself used to kill his victims? 8 You will judge this by comparing one measure to another, when he has been cast out. He has decided this, by his stern spirit, for the day of heat. 9 Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand. 10 For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits. 11 Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it. 12 And this shall be: in that day, the Lord will strike, from the channel of the river, even to the torrent of Egypt. And you shall be gathered together, one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 And this shall be: in that day, a noise will be made with a great trumpet. And those who had been lost will approach from the land of the Assyrians, with those who had been outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they will adore the Lord, on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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- 1 Ezekiel 29:3; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 66:16; Revelation 12:3–13:2; Revelation 20:2
- 2 Jeremiah 2:21; Psalm 80:8–19; Isaiah 5:1–7; Numbers 21:17; Luke 20:9–18
- 3 Isaiah 58:11; John 15:1–2; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 121:3–5; Ezekiel 37:14
- 4 Isaiah 10:17; Hebrews 6:8; Matthew 3:12; Psalm 85:3; 2 Samuel 23:6
- 5 Isaiah 25:4; Job 22:21; Ephesians 2:16–17; Isaiah 57:19; Isaiah 26:3–4
- 6 Isaiah 37:31; Hosea 14:5–6; Romans 11:16–26; Isaiah 54:1–3; Hosea 2:23
- 7 Isaiah 37:36–38; Jeremiah 30:11–16; Jeremiah 51:24; Daniel 2:31–35; Jeremiah 50:40
- 8 Ezekiel 19:12; Jeremiah 4:11; Jeremiah 10:24; Hosea 4:1; 1 Peter 1:6
- 9 Isaiah 48:10; Romans 11:27; Isaiah 17:8; Daniel 11:35; Zechariah 13:2
- 10 Isaiah 17:2; Isaiah 32:13–14; Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 26:6; Isaiah 17:9
- 11 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 43:7; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 8:7
- 12 Genesis 15:18; Isaiah 56:8; Deuteronomy 30:3–4; Nehemiah 1:9; Isaiah 17:6
- 13 Matthew 24:31; Leviticus 25:9; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 19:23–25; Zechariah 14:16
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Even as Esaias saith, "The children of Jacob shall strike root, and Israel shall flourish, and the whole world shall be filled with his fruit." The fruit, therefore, having been sown throughout all the world, she (Jerusalem) was deservedly forsaken, and those things which had formerly brought forth fruit abundantly were taken away; for from these, according to the flesh, …
And Esaias knowing the feebleness of the Chief Priests, and the women's strength of faith, says, Ye women, who come from beholding, come hither; for the people hath no understanding;--the Chief Priests want understanding, while women are eye-witnesses.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)