Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 6:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4, 5.) Woe to us, because the day has declined, because the shadows in the evening have become longer (or have failed). Arise and let us ascend in the night, and let us scatter its houses (or its foundations). They say: Arise, and let us ascend at noon, and let us fight in the clear light. Those respond: Woe to…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
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3The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand.
4Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail.
— Jeremiah 6:5 —
6For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.
7As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.