Joel 2:17

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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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Gregory the Theologian

AD 390

Who will cry aloud, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them”? Noah, Job and Daniel stood together as men of prayer. Who will pray for us, that we might have a slight respite from warfare and recover ourselves? In Defense of His Flight to Pontus, Oration

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