Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 27:12
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 12, 13.) And to King Zedekiah of Judah I spoke according to all these words, saying: Submit your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and you shall live. Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the Lord has spoken against the na…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: she is the last of the nations, desolate,
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In context
10And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11Because ye rejoiced, and boasted, while plundering my heritage; because ye exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
— Jeremiah 27:12 —
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.
14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,