Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 28:15

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5 onwards) And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah: Listen, Hananiah: The Lord did not send you, and yet you have made this people trust in a lie. Therefore, thus says the Lord: Behold, I will send (or cast) you away from the face of the earth, you will die this year. And what follows: Because you…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

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In context

13dwelling on many waters, and amidst the abundance of her treasures; thine end is come verily into thy bowels.

14For the Lord has sworn by his arm, saying, I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they that come down shall cry against thee.

— Jeremiah 28:15 —

16At his voice he makes a sound of water in the heaven, and brings up clouds from the extremity of the earth; he makes lightnings for rain, and brings light out of his treasures.

17Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.

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