Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 51:15

A church father on this verse
“For this is proved by Jeremiah when he says, "God has made the earth by his power; he has established the world by his wisdom and has stretched out the heavens by his understanding." These are the energies by the exercise of which he made this universe. His glory is greater if he labored. At length on the seventh day…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — AGAINST HERMOGENES 45

Source: Septuagint

Original

15Then all the men that knew that their wives burned incense, and all the women, a great multitude, and all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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13And I will visit them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have visited Jerusalem, with sword and with famine:

14and there shall not one be preserved of the remnant of Judah that sojourn in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, to which they hope in their hearts to return: they shall not return, but only they that escape.

— Jeremiah 51:15 —

16As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee.

17For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.

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