Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 27:13

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…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

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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In context

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

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

— Jeremiah 27:13 —

14Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,

15and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.

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