Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 13:24
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 24, 25.) And I will scatter them like chaff that is blown away by the wind in the desert. This is your portion and your measure from me, says the Lord (or also a part of your disobedience against me). Because by excessive habit of evils, they could not change their nature, not by the fault of the creator, but b…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24So I scattered them as sticks carried by the wind into the wilderness.
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In context
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.
— Jeremiah 13:24 —
25Thus is thy lot, and the reward of your disobedience to me, saith the Lord; as thou didst forget me, and trust in lies,
26I also will expose thy skirts upon thy face, and thy shame shall be seen;