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Isaiah 59:12

Eastern Fathers

Clement of Rome

For this reason righteousness and peace are far from you, since each has abandoned the fear of God and grown blind in his faith and ceased to walk by the rules of his precepts or to behave in a way worthy of Christ. Rather does each follow the lusts of his evil heart by reviving that wicked and unholy rivalry, by which, indeed, "death came into the world."

1 Clement 3:4 ↗

Western Saints

Jerome

Our iniquities have multiplied before you, and our sins have answered us: for our crimes are with us, and we know our iniquities. LXX: For our iniquity is great in your sight, and our sins have held us back. For our iniquities are within us, and we have acknowledged our injustices. For our iniquities have multiplied, saying, our iniquities are before you, from whom you have turned away your face for a long time, so that you would not see them, nor strike us. And our sins have answered against us, so that we receive what we deserve. …

Commentary on Isaiah ↗

Thomas Aquinas

1045. Second, they confess their fault. And first, the manifestation of their fault as to God: for our iniquities are multiplied before you, in your sight: all things are naked and open to his eyes (Heb 4:13); and as to the people themselves: and our sins have answered us, in punishments, for our wicked doings are with us, because we do not make satisfaction or correct our ways, above: the show of their countenance has answered them (Isa 3:9).

Commentary on Isaiah ↗