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The Prophet Isaiah, Michelangelo

Isaiah 8:9

Michelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Prophet Isaiah, c. 1509, Sistine Chapel

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Isaiah 8:9 (WEB)

Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

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  • “For a virgin conceived, and bare Emmanuel, which, when interpreted, signifies, “God with us: know it, O nations, and be overcome.”” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. viii. 8, 9. Quoted from the Septuagint.

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  • “…and as the same prophet says, the prediction has been fulfilled, “God (is) with us; know it, O nations, and be overcome; ye who are strong, be vanquished:” for we of the heathen have been overcome and vanquished, we who have been taken by the grace of His teaching.” — editor's note: Cf. Isa. viii. 8, 9.

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