Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 23:21
A church father on this verse
“(Verses 21, 22). I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied. If they had stood in my council and had made my words known to my people, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their actions. This sentiment is explained by the Apostle to the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21I sent not the prophets, yet they ran: neither spoke I to them, yet they prophesied.
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19Behold, there is an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.
20And the Lord’s wrath shall return no more, until he have accomplished it, and until he have established it, according to the purpose of his heart: at the end of the days they shall understand it.
— Jeremiah 23:21 —
22But if they had stood in my counsel, and if they had hearkened to my words, then would they have turned my people from their evil practices.
23I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.