Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 16:18

A church father on this verse
“The following words are going to produce a struggle for us. For whether we understand them as consequent, we shall take careful thought concerning the recompense of sins; or whether they seem not to be consequent upon the things previously set forth concerning those fished up and hunted, in that way too they cast us i…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 16

Source: Septuagint

Original

18And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.

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In context

16Behold, I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send many hunters, and they shall hunt them upon every mountain, and upon every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

17For mine eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden from mine eyes.

— Jeremiah 16:18 —

19O Lord, thou art my strength, and my help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

20Will a man make gods for himself, whereas these are no gods?

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