Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 4:22
A church father on this verse
“In the beginning, God commanded that you do these things because of your wickedness. In the same way, because of your determination to remain wicked, or rather, because you are increasingly prone to do it, he uses the same precepts to call you to remember it or come to know it. But you are a people hard-hearted and wi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
22For the princes of my people have not known me, they are foolish and unwise children: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have not known.
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20for all the land is distressed: suddenly my tabernacle is distressed, my curtains have been rent asunder.
21How long shall I see fugitives, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
— Jeremiah 4:22 —
23I looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was not; and to the sky, and there was no light in it.
24I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.