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Isaiah 21:13

Western Saints

Jerome

Burden in Arabia. In the evening you will sleep in the thicket, in the paths of Dodanim. Bring water to the thirsty ones you encounter: you who live in the land of the South, offer bread to the ones fleeing. Because they have fled from the swords, from the menacing sword, from the drawn bow, from the severity of battle. …

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Thomas Aquinas

524. The burden in Arabia. Here he threatens against the Arabs. And first, he indicates the cause of destruction: that when they offered bread to the fleeing sons of Israel, they took away their water. Hence he places the flight of the Jews: O you, Jews, in the forest, of Arabia, of Dodanim, the name of the place: they wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city (Ps 106:4).

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