Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 8:18
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 18) My sorrow is upon sorrow, my heart is mourning within me. As we have said before, the previous seventy sentences, which were said, were connected in order to establish: 'And they will bite you,' says the Lord, 'incurably: with the pain of your heart, you will faint.' However, in Hebrew, the word for pain, w…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
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16We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
17For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
— Jeremiah 8:18 —
19Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Zion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.
20The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.