Gefunden 90 Ergebnisse für: Decree

• What wonder if a decree was passed, by common consent, all Jewry should keep the festival year by year? (2 Maccabees 10, 8)

• And whereas we would have this nation live peaceably like the rest, we enact and decree that their temple should be restored to them, and that they should follow the custom of their forefathers. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)

• And all with one consent made a decree, never should that day pass unobserved; (2 Maccabees 15, 36)

• What is his decree? Why, that covetousness should never fill its own maw; never did he that loved money taste the enjoyment of his money;✻ here is frustration once again. (Ecclesiastes 5, 9)

• The Lord’s decree, who shall annul it? The Lord’s power, who shall thwart it? (Isaiah 14, 27)

• Earth drained to its dregs, earth ravaged and ransacked; such decree the Lord has uttered. (Isaiah 24, 3)

• Poor earth, polluted by the men that dwell on it; they have broken God’s law, traversed the decree he made for them, violated his eternal covenant with men; (Isaiah 24, 5)

• A heap of stones where, but for thy decree, a town stood; a crumbling ruin, all that is left of a walled city; a fortress of the invader, dismantled now and never to be built again. (Isaiah 25, 2)

• the Lord’s glory is to be revealed for all mankind to witness; it is his own decree.✻ (Isaiah 40, 5)

• Sion’s mourners, what decree should I make for them, what gift offer them? Heads shall be garlanded, that once were strewn with ashes; bright with oil, the faces that were marred with grief; gaily they shall be clad, that went sorrowing. Sturdy growths (men will say) that fulfil hope reposed in them,✻ pride of the Lord’s planting! (Isaiah 61, 3)

• See where the decree stands written in my presence, This shall not be passed over; I will take vengeance, pour it out into their laps. (Isaiah 65, 6)

• At his sentence, earth should mourn and heaven grow dark with sorrow, yet of his decree there should be no repenting; he would not go back from it. (Jeremiah 4, 28)