Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 51:9

A church father on this verse
“Jerusalem here is called Babylon, noted among the surrounding countries as the one who worked the hardest at imitating Babylon, and in no way lagging behind these other countries. Indeed, having arrived at almost a state of perfection in this regard, it tolerated no respect for the law or benefit from prophetic instru…”
Cyril of Alexandria, 5th c. — FRAGMENTS ON JEREMIAH IN CATENA

Source: Septuagint

Original

9Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Judah, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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7And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, to the end that not one of you should be left;

8by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

— Jeremiah 51:9 —

10And have not ceased even to this day, and they have not kept to my ordinances, which I set before their fathers.

11Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I do set my face against you

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