Trouvé 3576 Résultats pour: But
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)
In skiffs of papyrus reed she sends her ambassadors to the sea-coast! Ay, speed on your errand, but to a people far away, sundered from you by leagues of travel, dreaded people at the end of the earth, race that bears a tyrant’s yoke, in a land that is all rivers like your own.✻ (Isaiah 18, 2)
What a blossoming was here before the time of harvest, how fully formed the buds that were still ripening! But its boughs shall be cut back with the pruning-knife, its straying tendrils shall be torn off and thrown away. (Isaiah 18, 5)
And with these a third people shall be matched; who but Israel, source of the whole world’s happiness? (Isaiah 19, 24)
Such blessing the Lord of hosts has pronounced upon it, Blessed be my people in Egypt, and the home I have made for the Assyrian to dwell in; but Israel is the land of my choice. (Isaiah 19, 25)
It is thus that the king of Assyria will lead away the prisoners he takes in Egypt, the exiles from Ethiopia, young and old alike. Bare and unshod they shall go, with their buttocks exposed, to the shame of Egypt. (Isaiah 20, 4)
Morning is on its way, says he, but with morning, the night. Come back again and enquire, if enquire you must. (Isaiah 21, 12)
But now the revenues of her trafficking shall be devoted to the Lord’s use, not hoarded up and laid by; revenue she shall earn, but for Sion’s folk, the Lord’s servants, to give them food in abundance, and brave clothes to wear. (Isaiah 23, 18)
Few only, but they shall lift up their voices in praise; God’s honour vindicated, their rejoicing shall be heard across the sea, (Isaiah 24, 14)
here at the ends of the earth his song of triumph has reached us, the boast of his elect.✻ Heart, keep thy secret, heart, keep thy secret; no more of that.But alas, the traitors still betray his cause; treachery is treachery still, and its fruit is treason. (Isaiah 24, 16)
A heap of stones where, but for thy decree, a town stood; a crumbling ruin, all that is left of a walled city; a fortress of the invader, dismantled now and never to be built again. (Isaiah 25, 2)
death, too, shall be engulfed for ever. No furrowed cheek but the Lord God will wipe away its tears; gone the contempt his people endured in a whole world’s eyes; the Lord has promised it. (Isaiah 25, 8)
