Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 19:10

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 10, 11.) And you shall break the jar in the eyes of the men who go or come with you. And you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: So shall I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot be restored any longer. Clearly it is spoken not of the Babylonian, but of the Ro…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

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10And thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go forth with thee,

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In context

8And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.

9And they shall eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his neighbor in the blockade, and in the siege wherewith their enemies shall besiege them.

— Jeremiah 19:10 —

11and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Thus will I break in pieces this people, and this city, even as an earthen vessel is broken in pieces which cannot be mended again.

12Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.

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