Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 22:24

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 24 and following) I live, says the Lord: Even if Coniah the son of Joachim king of Judah were a signet on my right hand, I would still pluck him (or you) out. And I will give you into the hand of those seeking your life, and into the hand of those you fear their faces, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king o…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

24As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck thee;

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In context

22The wind shall tend all thy shepherds, and thy lovers shall go into captivity; for then shalt thou be ashamed and disgraced because of all thy lovers.

23O thou that dwellest in Lebanon, making thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon thee.

— Jeremiah 22:24 —

25and I will deliver thee into the hands of them that seek thy life, before whom thou art afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.

26And I will cast forth thee, and thy mother that bore thee, into a land where thou wast not born; and there ye shall die.

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