Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 31:3
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 3) Far off the Lord appeared to me (or to him): and in everlasting love I loved you: therefore I have drawn you with mercy. Because Israel had offended the Lord, and had said: We have no king but Caesar (John 19:15). And: Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours (Mark 12:7); and had strayed far…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3for there is a voice of men crying out of Horonaim, destruction and great ruin.
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In context
1Thus has the Lord said concerning Moab, Woe to Nebo! for it has perished: Kiriathaim is taken: Amath and Agath are put to shame.
2There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Heshbon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;
— Jeremiah 31:3 —
4Moab is ruined, proclaim it to Zoar:
5for Luhith is filled with weeping: one shall go up weeping by the way of Horonaim; ye have heard a cry of destruction.