Holy Scripture
Isaiah 5:20
A church father on this verse
“For, in like manner, they also who oppose martyrdoms, representing salvation to be destruction, transmute sweet into bitter, as well as light into darkness. Thus, by preferring this very wretched life to that most blessed one, they put bitter for sweet, as well as darkness for light.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who make darkness light, and light darkness; who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter.
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In context
18Woe to them that draw sins to them as with a long rope, and iniquities as with a thong of the heifer’s yoke:
19who say, Let him speedily hasten what he will do, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel come, that we may know it.
— Isaiah 5:20 —
21Woe to them that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.
22Woe to the strong ones of you that drink wine, and the mighty ones that mingle strong drink: