Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 25:10

A church father on this verse
“Israel … killed those who were sent, and not even before the Lord of the vineyard were they ashamed, but even he was slain by them. Truly, when he came and found no fruit in them, he cursed them through the fig tree, saying, "From now on, let there be no fruit from you." The fig tree was dead and fruitless so that eve…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — FESTAL LETTERS 6:5-6

Source: Septuagint

Original

10And I will destroy from among them the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the scent of ointment, and the light of a candle.

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8Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words,

9behold, I will send and take a family from the north, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all the nations round about it, and I will make them utterly waste, and make them a desolation, and a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

— Jeremiah 25:10 —

11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.

12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

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