Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 10:22

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 22) A voice of the cry, behold it comes, and a great commotion from the land of the North: to make the cities of Judah desolate, a habitation of dragons (or a den of ostriches). And as Symmachus has interpreted, of sirens: for which in Hebrew, Thannim () is put. The words of the prophet: Behold, he says, the no…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

22Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches.

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In context

20Thy tabernacle is in a ruinous state, it has perished; and all thy curtains have been torn asunder: my children and my cattle are no more: there is no more any place for my tabernacle, nor place for my curtains.

21For the shepherds have become foolish, and have not sought the Lord; therefore the whole pasture has failed, and the sheep have been scattered.

— Jeremiah 10:22 —

23I know, O Lord, that man’s way is not his own; neither shall a man go, and direct his going.

24Chasten us, O Lord, but with judgment; and not in wrath, lest thou make us few.

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