Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 6:7
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7) This is a city of visitation (or falsehood); all slander (or oppression) is in its midst. Just as a well or a lake makes its water cold, so it has made its evil cold. The Lord has commanded that trees be cut down, and that mounds be built all around. For the time of its visitation has come, to receive paymen…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her.
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5Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
6For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.
— Jeremiah 6:7 —
8Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
9For thus saith the Lord, Glean, glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel: turn back your hands as a grape-gatherer to his basket.