Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 25:9
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9) And I will bring them upon this land and upon its inhabitants and upon all the nations around it. And I will destroy them and make them a horror, and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. These are the rewards of those who despise and refuse to listen to the words of God. Therefore, whatever evil comes u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
7But ye hearkened not to me.
8Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since ye believed not my words,
— Jeremiah 25:9 —
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.
11And all the land shall be a desolation; and they shall serve among the Gentiles seventy years.