Thus says the LORD,
The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Desert. From which the former inhabitants had been driven, (4 Kings xvii. 6, 24.; Calmet) or, as those under Moses were favoured, (Haydock) so shall the captives. (Grotius)
Septuagint, "I found him warm "(thermon, means also a lupin, which has misled the old Latin interpreters. St. Jerome) murdered "in the desert, with those slain by the sword. Go, and destroy not Israel. "(Haydock)