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Isaiah 3:9Isa.3.9

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

L'aspect de leur visage témoigne contre eux, Et, comme Sodome, ils publient leur crime, sans dissimuler. Malheur à leur âme! Car ils se préparent des maux.

KJV

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide [it] not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Patristic reading

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  • Barnabae epistula

    Barnabae epistula

    αὐτοῦ μέλλοντος φανεροῦσθαι καὶ πάσχειν, προεφανερώθη τὸ πάθος. λέγει γὰρ ὁ προφήτης ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ: Is. 3. 9, 10, of. Wisd. 2, 12 Οὐαὶ τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτῶν, ὅτι βεβούλευνται βουλὴν πονηρὰν καθ̓ ἑαυτῶν, εἰπόντες: Δήσωμεν τὸν δίκαιον, ὅτι δύσχρηστος ἡμῖν ἐστίν. τί λέγει Erod. 33 1. 3; ὁ…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    st as, on the contrary, it is written as indicating an aggravating circumstance of the sin of some ( Is. 3:9 ): "They have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it." Therefore it is not essential to theft that it should consist in taking another's thing secr…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    thy own mouth"---nor even in evil things, because it is written in condemnation of certain people ( Is. 3:9 ): "They have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it." Therefore truth is not a virtue. Objection 3: Further, every virtue is either theological, or…

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