Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 38:5

A church father on this verse
“How am I distressed, think you, when I call to mind that on the festival days the multitudes assembled resemble the broad expanse of the sea, but now not even the smallest part of that multitude is gathered together here? Where are they now who oppress us with their presence on the feast days?… Now if they make the su…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILY TO THOSE WHO HAD NOT ATTENDED THE ASSEMBLY 2

Source: Septuagint

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5For ye have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria: plant ye, and praise.

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3The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore have I drawn thee in compassion.

4For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.

— Jeremiah 38:5 —

6For it is a day when those that plead on the mountains of Ephraim shall call, saying, Arise ye, and go up to Zion to the Lord your God.

7For thus saith the Lord to Jacob; Rejoice ye, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise ye: say, The Lord has delivered his people, the remnant of Israel.

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