Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 27:11

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 9 and following) So do not listen to your prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and augurs, and sorcerers, who say to you: 'You will not serve the king of Babylon, for they prophesy lies to you, in order to drive you far from your land and to expel you, and you will perish.' But the nation that puts its neck un…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

11Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering my heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.

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In context

9For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.

10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.

— Jeremiah 27:11 —

12Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: she is the last of the nations, desolate,

13by reason of the Lord’s anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and everyone that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.

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