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Jeremiah 23:14Jer.23.14

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais dans les prophètes de Jérusalem j'ai vu des choses horribles; Ils sont adultères, ils marchent dans le mensonge; Ils fortifient les mains des méchants, Afin qu'aucun ne revienne de sa méchanceté; Ils sont tous à mes yeux comme Sodome, Et les habitants de Jérusalem comme Gomorrhe.

KJV

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    eater on account of scandal, because many take note of his manner of life: wherefore it is written ( Jer. 23:14 ): "I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the Prophets of Jerusalem; and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return…

  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 133 (Migne)

    n a facie Domini. ---Quo exitur ab eo qui ubique est? Hinc namque ait: «Coelum et terram ego impleo (Jer. XXIII, 14) .» Sed quandiu Satan, pressus majestatis potentia, appetitum suae malitiae exercere non valuit, quasi ante faciem Domini stetit. A facie autem Domini exiit, quia r…

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