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Isaiah 24:7

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Jerome

The grape harvest has failed, the vine is weakened, all those who rejoiced in their hearts have sighed. The joy of the tambourines has ceased, the sound of the rejoicers has quieted, the sweetness of the lyre has been silenced, as those who do not drink wine with singing, bitter will be the drink for those who drink it. The city of vanity is worn away, every house is closed with no one entering. …

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Thomas Aquinas

570. The vintage has mourned. Here he threatens the removal of joys as to the wicked; and second, he sets out the joys of the good: as if a few olives (Isa 24:13). Concerning the first, he does three things. First, he sets out the ending of joy which came from three things: either in the fertility of things, the vintage has mourned, failing, that is, it was the cause of mourning, above: there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards (Isa 16:10).

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