Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 26:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5) and listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, rising up early and sending them, and you have not listened. But if it sufficed to walk once in the law, which was given to us by Moses, as a foolish sect suspects, how did he add: 'That you may hear the words of my servants the pro…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Why do they fear, and turn back? even because their mighty men shall be slain: they have utterly fled, and being hemmed in they have not rallied, saith the Lord.
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3Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;
4and harness the horses: mount, ye horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.
— Jeremiah 26:5 —
6Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
7Who is this that shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll their waves?