Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 25:4
A church father on this verse
“When the Jews often resisted wholesome precepts and departed from the divine law, going astray to the impious worship of false gods, then God filled just and chosen men with the Holy Spirit, appointing them as prophets in the midst of the people, by whom he might rebuke with threatening words the sins of the ungratefu…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears); saying,
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In context
2which he spoke to all the people of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3In the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, even until this day for three and twenty years, I have both spoken to you, rising early and speaking,
— Jeremiah 25:4 —
5Turn ye every one from his evil way, and from your evil practices, and ye shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers, of old and forever.
6Go ye not after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them, that ye provoke me not by the works of your hands, to do you hurt.