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Think you not he will fulfil, ere long, the promise made in his law; take pity on us, that are scattered wide as heaven, and on this hallowed soil reunite us? (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
and Menelaus was as good as lost. What did he? With the promise of a great bribe he secured the good word of Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes;✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
Believe me, that word of assent has caught thee in a snare, thou art the prisoner of thy own promise made. (Proverbs 6, 2)
Never promise thyself vengeance; await the Lord’s hour, and redress shall be thine. (Proverbs 20, 22)
Did they know it, the death of the just man, with its promise early achieved, is a reproach to the wicked that live yet in late old age. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 16)
From me comes every grace of faithful observance, from me all promise of life and vigour. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 25)
Thou didst forget the God who delivered thee, and gavest no thought to thy strong protector; thou art like one who plants on soil of good promise, but all the while is putting in bastard shoots. (Isaiah 17, 10)
A promise from the Lord God! Here is lion, or cub of a lion, growling over his prey; what though the shepherds rally, and go out to meet him? Nothing cares he for their shouts, is not awed by their numbers. So it will be with the Lord of hosts, when he comes down to war, here on mount Sion, with his own hill-side for battle-ground. (Isaiah 31, 4)
still in these times of ours✻ the promise well kept, the full deliverance. Knowledge and wisdom and the fear of the Lord, what treasure like these? (Isaiah 33, 6)
This sign, too, the Lord gives thee, in proof that he will make his promise good; (Isaiah 38, 7)
Thou hast no praise in the world beneath, death cannot honour thee; those who go down into the grave have no promise of thine to hope for; (Isaiah 38, 18)
Why then, Ezechias said to Isaias, welcome be the word the Lord has spoken! In my time at least, he said, may there be peace, may the promise hold good. (Isaiah 39, 8)
