Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 49:14
A church father on this verse
“He used the phrase "he sent messengers to the nations" to mean "command." It is also likely that by divine command ministering angels stirred up the enemy. Remember that the divine David also says, "He sent forth on them the wrath of his anger; anger, wrath and distress, a dispatch by means of wicked angels." He calls…”
Source: Septuagint
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14for we will go into the land of Egypt, and we shall see no war, and shall not hear the sound of a trumpet, and we shall not hunger for bread; and there we will dwell:
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In context
12And I will grant you mercy, and pity you, and will restore you to your land.
13But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, that we may not hearken to the voice of the Lord;
— Jeremiah 49:14 —
15then hear the word of the Lord; thus saith the Lord;
16If ye set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be, that the sword which ye fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which ye have regard, shall overtake you, coming after you in Egypt; and there ye shall die.