Holy Scripture

Ezekiel 16:42

A church father on this verse
“If you do not recover your senses when you have been chastised, if you are not corrected when you have been reproved, if you despise when you are beaten, you must realize that if you go on continually sinning his jealousy will depart from you and that which is said to Jerusalem by the prophet Ezekiel will be said to y…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 8:5

Source: Septuagint

Original

42So will I slacken my fury against thee, and my jealousy shall be removed from thee, and I will rest, and be no more careful for thee.

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In context

40And they shall bring multitudes upon thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and pierce thee with their swords.

41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from harlotry, and I will no more give thee rewards.

— Ezekiel 16:42 —

43Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities.

44These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb, saying,

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