Holy Scripture
Isaiah 2:7
A church father on this verse
“Someone might ask, what is wrong with having silver or horses, particularly when what the people believed was not rigorous? How should we respond? The prophet was not criticizing the use of these possessions but the misuse of them. When he said, "Woe to the mighty," he was not condemning them for having possessions bu…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of their chariots.
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5And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.
— Isaiah 2:7 —
8And the land is filled with abominations, even the works of their hands; and they have worshiped the works which their fingers made.
9And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.