This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ce méchant peuple, qui refuse d'écouter mes paroles, Qui suit les penchants de son coeur, Et qui va après d'autres dieux, Pour les servir et se prosterner devant eux, Qu'il devienne comme cette ceinture, Qui n'est plus bonne à rien!
KJV
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
es the latter understands the meaning of it, like Jeremias who hid his loin-cloth in the Euphrates ( Jer. 13:1-11 ); while sometimes he does not understand it---thus the soldiers, who divided Christ's garments, understood not the meaning of what they did. Accordingly, when a man…
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