Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 28:17
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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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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15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.
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.
— Jeremiah 28:17 —
18They are vain works, objects of scorn; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19Not such is Jacob’s portion; for he that formed all things, he is his inheritance; the Lord is his name.