O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Fille de mon peuple, couvre-toi d'un sac et roule-toi dans la cendre, Prends le deuil comme pour un fils unique, Verse des larmes, des larmes amères! Car le dévastateur vient sur nous à l'improviste.
KJV
O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
serves the mean. Now penance does not observe the mean, but rather goes to the extreme, according to Jer. 6:26 : "Make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation." Therefore penance is not a species of justice. Objection 3: Further, there are two species of justice, a…
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