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Isaiah 26:16

Western Saints

Jerome

Lord, in distress they sought you, in tribulation they murmured your teaching. LXX: Lord, in tribulation I remembered you, in small tribulation your teaching was to us. For being indulgent, you have often been despised and not glorified; but on the contrary, all have departed from your knowledge; therefore, Lord, strike them, so that in distress they may seek you, and in tribulation may your teaching be to them: when such a weight of affliction rests upon them that they dare not even cry out confidently, but silently …

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Thomas Aquinas

Second, the usefulness of avenging justice: Lord, they have sought after you in distress: in their affliction they will rise early to me (Hos 6:1); in the time of their affliction they will say: arise, and deliver us (Jer 2:27).

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