Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 3:2

A church father on this verse
“Scripture designates the children of adulterers as imperfect. Such a soul, to be sure, that prostrates itself totally to the tendencies of the flesh and bodily desires, has forsaken union with the spirit, and as if turned away from God will shamelessly hear, "You have the face of a harlot. You have made yourself shame…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 1:15

Source: Septuagint

Original

2Lift up thine eyes to look straight forward, and see where thou hast not been utterly defiled. Thou hast sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and hast defiled the land with thy fornications and thy wickedness.

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In context

1If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.

— Jeremiah 3:2 —

3And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

4Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin time?

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