Your holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylo…

Your holy cities ... —There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the Septuagint and Vulgate to subst…

We are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: …

The cities of thy holiness. The Church again recounts her miseries, so that she may move God to mercy and obtain pardon. She says that the…

Your holy cities are a wilderness
Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, t…

The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, acknowledging themselves unworthy of His mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which…

1. O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.

   First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …