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Isaiah 51:3Isa.51.3

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Ainsi l'Eternel a pitié de Sion, Il a pitié de toutes ses ruines; Il rendra son désert semblable à un Eden, Et sa terre aride à un jardin de l'Eternel. La joie et l'allégresse se trouveront au milieu d'elle, Les actions de grâces et le chant des cantiques.

KJV

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    e, but solely in the praise of God, proceeding from the inward knowledge and affection, according to Is. 51:3 : "Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of praise." But in the present state of life, we are unable to gaze on the Divine Truth in Itself,…

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    to worship of God will be figurative; there will be naught but "thanksgiving and voice of praise" ( Is. 51:3 ). Hence it is written concerning the city of the Blessed ( Apoc. 21:22 ): "I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb." Propor…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)

    dicitur: «Ponet desertum ejus quasi delicias, [Col. 0459B] et solitudinem ejus quasi hortum Domini (Isa. LI, 3) .» In solitudine ergo Dominus domum accepit, qui post mortem ac resurrectionem suam ad gratiam fidei gentilitatem vocare dignatus est. Sequitur: Et tabernaculum ejus…

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