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Jeremiah 2:12 (WEB)
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says the LORD.

Fathers and councils · 8

Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians I.1Discourse I
“‘The heaven,’ as the Prophet says, ‘was astonished, and the earth shuddered’ at the transgression of the Law.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12.
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Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History IV.19Book IV
“Now even to the ignorant was made manifest the savage purpose of the judge and it may truly be said “at this, the heavens stood astonished.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12. A.V. “Be astonished, O ye heavens.” But in Sept. as in text ἐξέστη ὁ οὐρανὸς ἐπὶ τούτῳ
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 58
“Wherefore now it were seasonable to bring forward the prophet and say, “Be astonished, O Heaven, and be horribly afraid, O earth,”to what great brutality hath the race of man been madly carried away!” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 46
“The heavens are astonished at this, and the earth is horribly afraid, saith the Lord, for the virgin has committed two evils; she has forsaken Me, the true and holy Bridegroom of holy souls, and has betaken herself to an impious and lawless destroyer of body and soul alike.” — editor's note: cf. Jer. ii. 12, 13, LXX.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 12
“…heaven at the tidings of the unholy deeds of the people: “The heaven was astonished at this, and was horribly afraid, because my people committed two evils.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12, 13, lxx.
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Aphrahat, Select Demonstrations Demonstration 21
“But they forsook Him, and worshipped idols, as Jeremiah said concerning them:—Go to the distant isles, and send to Kedar, and consider well and see, whether there has been (anything) like this, whether the nations change their gods, those that are no gods.” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 10–13.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor I.9Book I
“For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and have hewn out to themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.”” — editor's note: Jer. ii. 12, 13.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.60Book III
“To the wood and to the stone they have said, Thou art my father; and to the stone, Thou hast begotten me: and they turned to me their back, and not their face.”” — editor's note: Jer. x. 2–5, 9, 11; ii. 12, 13, 19, 20, 27.
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