Löydetty 675 Tulokset: Folk Wisdom
Listen, foolish folk and unperceiving, with sightless eyes, ears that had as well been deaf! (Jeremiah 5, 21)
In all their wisdom, how disappointed, how bewildered, how entrapped! God’s word they cast away, and wisdom left them. (Jeremiah 8, 9)
This, too, is the Lord’s message: Never boast, if thou art wise, of thy wisdom, if thou art strong, of thy strength, if thou art rich, of thy riches; (Jeremiah 9, 23)
Egypt, Juda, Edom, Ammon, Moab; ay, and the desert folk that clip their foreheads bare. The whole world is uncircumcised; all have hearts uncircumcised, and Israel with the rest.✻ (Jeremiah 9, 26)
King of all nations, how should we not fear thee in that majesty of thine? Boast the world as it will of wisdom or of empire, none can rival thee. (Jeremiah 10, 7)
Power that made the earth, wisdom that orders nature, foresight that spread out the heavens! (Jeremiah 10, 12)
Lord, I know it well enough, it is not for man to choose his lot; not human wisdom guides our steps aright. (Jeremiah 10, 23)
Why, the Lord said to me, here is a conspiracy among Juda’s folk, Jerusalem’s folk! (Jeremiah 11, 9)
Vexation, too, and veiled heads among the country folk, so languish the fields for lack of rain; (Jeremiah 14, 4)
Slain by sword and famine, the common folk that listen to them shall lie in the streets of Jerusalem, with none to bury them; wives and sons and daughters shall die with them; their own misdoings shall be a flood to drown them. (Jeremiah 14, 16)
Be this, then, thy message from the Lord to Juda’s folk, to the citizens of Jerusalem: Ill days I have in store for you; all my plans are laid; time that each one of you should return from the false path, shape aims and thoughts anew. (Jeremiah 18, 11)
And this warning the Lord gives to the common folk: Here is choice I offer you between life and death, take which course you will. (Jeremiah 21, 8)
