Holy Scripture
Lamentations 4:1
A church father on this verse
“With what conscience can the overseer of souls avail himself among other people of his pastoral dignity, while engaged himself in the earthly cares that it was his duty to reprehend in others? And this indeed is what the Lord, in the wrath of just retribution, menaced through the prophet, saying, "And there shall be l…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1How will the gold be tarnished, And the fine silver changed! The sacred stones have been poured forth At the top of all the streets.
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— Lamentations 4:1 —
2The precious sons of Zion, Who were equaled in value with gold, How are they counted as earthen vessels, The works of the hands of the potter!
3Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, They give suck to their young, The daughters of my people are incurably cruel, As an ostrich in a desert.