Holy Scripture
Isaiah 9:12
A church father on this verse
“Chapter IX - (Verses 8 onwards) The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we w…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
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In context
10And God shall dash down them that rise up against him on Mount Zion, and shall scatter his enemies;
11even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is exalted.
— Isaiah 9:12 —
13So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
14the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.