Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 27:9

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

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.

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7All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers had a pasture of righteousness.

8Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.

— Jeremiah 27:9 —

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.

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