Löydetty 986 Tulokset: City Gates
Vain is the builder’s toil, if the house is not of the Lord’s building; vainly the guard keeps watch, if the city has not the Lord for its guardian. (Psalms 126, 1)
He it is that bolts thy gates fast, and blesses thy children, who dwell safe in thee; (Psalms 147, 2)
plundering the city and setting fire to it. Houses and encircling walls of it were thrown down in ruins, (1 Maccabees 1, 33)
Little wonder if the inhabitants of Jerusalem took to flight, leaving their city to strangers; mother so unnatural her own children must forsake. (1 Maccabees 1, 40)
no city of Juda but was ordered to do sacrifice. (1 Maccabees 1, 54)
and these saw well what foul things were a-doing in Juda’s country and the city of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 2, 6)
Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
And now Mattathias raised a cry in the city, Who loves the law? Who keeps the covenant unbroken? Out with you, and follow me! (1 Maccabees 2, 27)
So fled he with his sons into the hill-country, leaving his possessions behind, there in the city. (1 Maccabees 2, 28)
From city to city he went, ridding Juda of its law-breakers, averting the vengeance guilt of theirs had deserved; (1 Maccabees 3, 8)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
What saw they? The holy place desolate, the altar profaned, charred gates, courts overgrown with brushwood, like forest clearing or mountain glen, the priests’ lodging in ruins. (1 Maccabees 4, 38)
