Jeremiah 2:19
Douay-Rheims
Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
John Chrysostom
When he does not convince with his word, God many times permits the experience of things to be the teaching, something that he also said to the Jews. When he expended myriads of words though the prophets, he neither persuaded nor embraced the Jews. Allowing them to be educated through punishment, he said to them, "Your apostasy shall correct you, and wickedness shall reprove you."
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A.D. 407 · on Jer 2:19 (HOMILIES ON REPENTANCE AND ALMSGIVING 1:4.27)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.