Löydetty 806 Tulokset: Human Sacrifice
The Lord then said: Because this people approaches me only in words, honours me only with lip-service while their hearts are far from me, and reverence for me, as far as they are concerned, is nothing but human commandment, a lesson memorised, (Isaiah 29, 13)
The Egyptian is human, not divine, his horses are flesh, not spirit; Yahweh will stretch out his hand: the protector will stumble, the protected will fall and all will perish together. (Isaiah 31, 3)
Assyria will fall by the sword, not that of a man, will be devoured by the sword, of no human being, he will flee before the sword and his young warriors will be enslaved. (Isaiah 31, 8)
Yahweh's sword is gorged with blood, it is greasy with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (Isaiah 34, 6)
they have thrown their gods on the fire, for these were not gods but human artefacts -- wood and stone -- and hence they have destroyed them. (Isaiah 37, 19)
Someone too poor to afford a sacrifice chooses a piece of wood that will not rot; he then seeks out a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not totter. (Isaiah 40, 20)
Watch how all its devotees will be put to shame, and the men who made it too, who are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forward and feel both fear and shame! (Isaiah 44, 11)
The wood carver takes his measurements, outlines the image with chalk, executes it with the chisel, following the outline with a compass. He makes it look like a human being, with human standards of beauty, so that it can reside in a house. (Isaiah 44, 13)
It was I who made the earth and I created human beings on it, mine were the hands that spread out the heavens and I have given the orders to all their array. (Isaiah 45, 12)
I, I am your consoler. Why then should you be afraid of mortal human beings, of a child of man, whose fate is that of the grass? (Isaiah 51, 12)
On a mountain high and lofty you have put your bed. Thither, too, you have climbed to offer sacrifice. (Isaiah 57, 7)
Some slaughter a bull, some kill a human being, some sacrifice a lamb, some strangle a dog, some present an offering of pig's blood, some burn memorial incense, a revolting blessing; all these people have chosen their own ways and take delight in their disgusting practices. (Isaiah 66, 3)
