Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 7:28
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 27, 28.) And you shall speak to them all these words, and they will not listen to you. And you shall call to them, and they will not respond to you. And you shall say to them: This is a people who has not heard the voice of their Lord God, nor received discipline. Faith has perished and has been taken away from…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
28This is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
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26but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
27Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
— Jeremiah 7:28 —
29Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
30For the children of Judah have wrought evil before me, saith the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house on which my name is called, to defile it.