Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the yearning of your heart and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
Read Chapter 63
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Back. This is spoken by the prophet in the person of the Jews, at the time when for their sins they were given up to their enemies. (Challoner)
Judas uses the same language at Maspha, 1 Machabees iii. 50. (Calmet)