Zion the mountain; Jacob surrounded by afflictors
Zion, she says, is the mountain, and Jacob the people, and Jerusalem the mother-city. And God commanded to Jacob commandments through which, being transgressed, he was surrounded by enemies; and according to Symmachus and according to another edition of the Seventy, the Lord commanded those afflicting him to come to be round about him—to the powers arranged unto harming (Lamentations 1:17).
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 1, 17. Σιών φησι τὸ ὄρος, τὸν δὲ λαὸν Ἰακώβ, τὴν δὲ μητρόπολιν Ἱερουσαλήμ. ἐνετείλατο δὲ ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἐντολὰς δι' ἄς παραβαινομένας ὑπ' ἐχθρῶν ἐκυκλώθη, κατὰ δὲ Σύμμαχον καὶ καθ’ ἑτέραν ἔκδοσιν τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα ἐνετείλατο κύριος κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι τοὺς θλίβοντας αὐτόν, αὐτόν, ταῖς εἰς τὸ κακοῦν τεταγμέναις δυνάμεσιν.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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