Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Altar of holocausts. They turned towards the holy place, lying prostrate, 1 Esdras x. 1., and 2 Machabees x. 26. (Calmet) Hither the victim of expiation was brought, and the high priest confessed. (Maimonides) Over them, as they might easily have done during the famine.

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