Holy Scripture

Hosea 13:3

A church father on this verse
“Such, brethren, is our life, we whose existence is so transitory. Such is the game we play upon earth. We do not exist, and then we are born, and being born we are soon dissolved. We are a fleeting dream, an apparition without substance, the flight of a bird that passes, a ship that leaves no trace upon the sea. We ar…”
Gregory of Nazianzus, 4th c. — ON HIS BROTHER ST. CAESARIUS, ORATION 7:19

Source: Septuagint

Original

3Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.

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In context

1According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

2And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

— Hosea 13:3 —

4But I am the Lord thy God that establishes the heaven, and creates the earth, whose hands have framed the whole host of heaven: but I showed them not to thee that thou shouldest go after them: and I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me; and there is no Savior beside me.

5I tended thee as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

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