Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 12:13

A church father on this verse
“And it is said to those who have sinned, "You sow wheat and you reap thorns"; for even if they discourse in the oracles of God, those who do not discourse rightly in them, nor live in the way they ought, nor believe, are sowing wheat and reaping thorns. And these things are most of all to be understood with reference…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 11

Source: Septuagint

Original

13Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.

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In context

11it is made a complete ruin: for my sake the whole land has been utterly ruined, because there is none that lays the matter to heart.

12The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.

— Jeremiah 12:13 —

14For thus saith the Lord concerning all the evil neighbors that touch mine inheritance, which I have divided to my people Israel; Behold, I will draw them away from their land, and I will cast out Judah from the midst of them.

15And it shall come to pass, after I have cast them out, that I will return, and have mercy upon them, and will cause them to dwell every one in his inheritance, and every one in his land.

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