Löydetty 962 Tulokset: Community Life
What is the law of common life? Let wife that has been put away by her husband marry a second, can she afterwards return to the first? That were shame and defilement.✻ And thou with many lovers hast played the wanton; yet come back to me, the Lord says, and thou shalt find welcome. (Jeremiah 3, 1)
Now, Jerusalem, as thy life thou lovest, rid thy heart of guile; wilt thou never cease to harbour those false thoughts of thine? (Jeremiah 4, 14)
And thou, Jerusalem, when thy turn comes to be despoiled, what shift wilt thou make? Vain was it to dress in scarlet, and deck thyself with chains of gold, and with antimony darken thy eyes; vain were those arts, thy lovers are weary of thee now, and thy life is forfeit. (Jeremiah 4, 30)
Cries of anguish I hear, as from a woman in the throes of travail; it is queen Sion, gasping out her life, and crying with hands outspread, Woe is me, I swoon away, here in the slaughter-house! (Jeremiah 4, 31)
Listen I never so attentively, wholesome word I hear none; never a man that repents of his sin, asks himself what his life has been. No, each one follows his own bent, reckless as war-horse charging into battle. (Jeremiah 8, 6)
And now the Lord has a word for yonder men of Anathoth, who conspired to kill me, and would have stopped me prophesying in the Lord’s name, on pain of my life. (Jeremiah 11, 21)
Farewell, my home; I have done with my chosen people; the life that was so dear to me I have handed over to its enemies.✻ (Jeremiah 12, 7)
Who but I, the Lord, that can see into man’s heart, and read his inmost thoughts, to every life awarding what its doings have earned? (Jeremiah 17, 10)
Partridge that fosters a brood not its own is fit emblem for the man that wins riches unjustly; when life is but half done, he must take leave of them, a fool to the last. (Jeremiah 17, 11)
All at once to a nation here, a kingdom there, I promise restoration of its fortunes and new life. (Jeremiah 18, 9)
Must they make such a return for my good will, laying a snare to take my life? Bethink thee, how I ever stood up before thee to plead for them, to avert thy anger from them. (Jeremiah 18, 20)
but there is no hiding from thee, Lord, the designs they have on my life. Do not forgive their malice, keep their guilt ever in thy sight; cast them down to earth at thy presence, and in thy anger make an end of them. (Jeremiah 18, 23)
