Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 13:21

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 20, 21.) Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given to you, your splendid flock? What will you say when they visit you? You have taught them and trained them against you, and it will come upon your own head. The inhabitants of Jerusalem are commanded to lift up th…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

21What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?

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In context

19The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them: Judah is removed into captivity, they have suffered a complete removal.

20Lift up thine eyes, O Jerusalem, and behold them that come from the north; where is the flock that was given thee, the sheep of thy glory?

— Jeremiah 13:21 —

22And if thou shouldest say in thy heart, Wherefore have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of thine iniquity have thy skirts been discovered, that thy heels might be exposed.

23If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learned evil.

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