Holy Scripture
Psalms 79:11
A church father on this verse
“Let the groaning of the fettered enter into your sight. This is what those who follow the teachings of Origen are accustomed to say: The groaning of the fettered — that is, of the angels, they say, who have been fettered in bodies. For just as, if fetters are put on the feet, they weigh down the body and do not allow…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11Its shadow covered the mountains, And its shoots equaled the goodly cedars.
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9Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
10Thou madest a way before it, And didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.
— Psalms 79:11 —
12It sent forth its branches to the sea, And its shoots to the river.
13Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, While all that pass by the way pluck it?