But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our deeds, so has he dealt with us.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fathers. They felt their effects. (Haydock)
Returned; being converted by the sight of God's judgments, Osee iv. 1., and 2 Esdras i. 6.