Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 23:10
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 10) Because the earth is filled with adulterers (or adulteresses), because the face of the earth mourns because of a curse (or oath), the fields (or pastures) of the desert are dried up, and their course is evil, and their strength is dissimilar. This that we have put from Hebrew: because the earth is filled wi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10For because of these things the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is become evil, and so also their strength.
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In context
9My heart is broken within me; all my bones are shaken: I am become as a broken-down man, and as a man overcome with wine, because of the Lord, and because of the excellence of his glory.
— Jeremiah 23:10 —
11For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.
12Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.