Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 2:8

A church father on this verse
“God has also entrusted a deposit to us: the brothers' way of life. While laboring on their behalf, we look forward to future rewards, lest this be said of us as well, "Let this people go," and lest, if we forsake the traditions of our ancestors, this be hurled at us: "Those who have my law do not know me; the shepherd…”
Oresiesis-Heru-sa Ast, 4th c. — THE TESTAMENT OF HORSIESI 11

Source: Septuagint

Original

8The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held by the law knew me not: the shepherds also sinned against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after that which profited not.

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In context

6And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land which no man at all went through, and no man dwelt there?

7And I brought you to Carmel, that ye should eat the fruits thereof, and the good thereof; and ye went in, and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

— Jeremiah 2:8 —

9Therefore I will yet plead with you, and will plead with your children’s children.

10For go to the isles of the Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

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