Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 5:11
A church father on this verse
“Accusation is the censure of wrongdoers. This mode of instruction God employs by David, when he says, "The people whom I did not know served me, and when their ears heard they obeyed me. Sons of strangers came to me, and halted from their ways." And by Jeremiah: "And I gave her a divorce decree, but covenant-breaking…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11For the house of Israel have indeed dealt treacherously against me, saith the Lord: the house of Judah also
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In context
9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this.
10Go up upon her battlements, and break them down; but make not a full end: leave her buttresses; for they are the Lord’s.
— Jeremiah 5:11 —
12have lied to their Lord, and they have said, These things are not so; no evils shall come upon us; and we shall not see sword or famine.
13Our prophets became wind, and the word of the Lord was not in them.