Holy Scripture
Isaiah 9:13
A church father on this verse
“It is better to turn again when we err than to be free from correction when we stumble. For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and a rebuke is a fatherly action. Every soul that is not chastised is not healed. Is not then freedom from chastisement a hard thing? But to fail to be corrected by the chastisement is still ha…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day:
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In context
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.
12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
— Isaiah 9:13 —
14the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.
15And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.