Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 22:29
A church father on this verse
“Someone who is in a state of ignorance is sinful and considered "earth and ashes." Someone who is in a state of knowledge, being assimilated as far as possible to God, is already spiritual and thus is considered elect. Scripture calls the senseless and disobedient by the term "dirt," which is clear from what Jeremiah…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.
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In context
27But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.
28Coniah is dishonored as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.
— Jeremiah 22:29 —
30Write ye this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, or as a prince yet in Judah.