Therefore thus says the LORD;
Ask you now among the nations, who has heard such things: the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
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Basil the Great
AD 379
Who would not grieve over such things and say, “How is the faithful city become a harlot?” How would not the Lord say to some of those who are now walking in the spirit of Jeremiah, “Have you seen what the virgin of Israel has done to me?” I betrothed her to me in trust, in purity, in righteousness, in judgment, in pity, and in mercy; as I promised her through Hosea the prophet. But she loved strangers, and while I, her husband, was yet alive, she is called adulteress and is not afraid to belong to another husband. - "Letter 46.3"
