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Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
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The Pain of Sacred Loss
Commentators describe this verse as one of the most emotionally powerful in the Bible. The destruction of the Temple wasn't just the loss of a building; it was the loss of their 'holy and beautiful house,' a place of national glory and, most importantly, where their ancestors had faithfully worshipped God. This deep sense of loss fuels their desperate plea.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Our holy and our beautiful house - The temple. It was called ‘holy,’ because it was dedicated to the service of God; and ‘beautiful,’ on acc…
19th Century
Anglican
Our holy and our beautiful house ... —The destruction of the Temple, which, on the assumption of Isaiah’s authorship, the…
Baptist
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: …
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16th Century
Protestant
The house of our sanctuary and of our glory. It is called “the sanctuary of the people” in a different sense from that in which it is call…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Our holy and our beautiful house Meaning the temple, the house of God, as Aben Ezra: called "holy", because dedicated to …
The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, acknowledging themselves unworthy of His mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which…
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13th Century
Catholic
O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.
First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …
