Gefunden 2006 Ergebnisse für: Israel's Mourning
Hereupon, a message came to Jeroboam, king of Israel, from Amasias that was priest at Bethel. Here is Amos, said he, raising revolt against thee in the realm of Israel; there is no room in all the land for such talk as his; (Amos 7, 10)
Jeroboam to die at the sword’s point, Israel to be banished from its native country! (Amos 7, 11)
I was but tending sheep when the Lord took me into his service. It was the Lord bade me go and prophesy to his people of Israel. (Amos 7, 15)
He has a message for thee: Thou wilt have no prophesying against Israel, no word dropped against Bethaven? (Amos 7, 16)
Here, then, is the divine doom pronounced on thee: Wife of thine, here in the city streets, shall be dishonoured; sons and daughters of thine shall die at the sword’s point; lands of thine shall feel the measuring-rope. And for thyself, on unhallowed soil death awaits thee, when Israel is banished, as banished it needs must be, from the land of its birth. (Amos 7, 17)
And when he asked, could I see what he had there, Why, Lord, I said, a grappling-hook for fruit-trees! Ay, said he, and right autumn it is for my people of Israel; no further chance shall they have of repentance. (Amos 8, 2)
All your feasting turned to lament, all your songs to dirge and dole; not a loin but goes clad in sackcloth, not a head but is shaved bald; never was such mourning made, though it were for an only son; bitter the day, bitter its ending. (Amos 8, 10)
At my command, the whole world shall be a sieve, to sift the race of Israel as corn is sifted in the riddle, and never a grain✻ cast out loose on the bare ground; (Amos 9, 9)
I will bring back my people of Israel from its exile, to rebuild ruined cities and dwell there, plant vineyards and drink of them, till gardens and eat the fruits of them. (Amos 9, 14)
Warriors of Israel, banished far away, shall hold all the Chanaanite lands, Sarepta their northern frontier; men of Jerusalem, come back from the shores of Bosphorus to claim the cities of the south. (Obadiah 1, 20)
Alas, what betokens it? What but Jacob’s going astray, what but guilt of Israel’s line? Head and front of Jacob’s sinning Samaria needs must be, sure as Jerusalem is Juda’s place of pilgrimage.✻ (Micah 1, 5)
Away with you, Shaphir’s folk, shivering and shamed; of coming and going in Saanan sign is none; mourning of Beth-ezel … has taken the ground from under your feet. (Micah 1, 11)
