Trouvé 1518 Résultats pour: Chosen People
And when he asked, could I see what he had there, Why, Lord, I said, a grappling-hook for fruit-trees! Ay, said he, and right autumn it is for my people of Israel; no further chance shall they have of repentance. (Amos 8, 2)
at the sword’s point they shall die, all the guilty that are found among my people; the guilty, who now flatter themselves that evil shall never come next or nigh them. (Amos 9, 10)
I will bring back my people of Israel from its exile, to rebuild ruined cities and dwell there, plant vineyards and drink of them, till gardens and eat the fruits of them. (Amos 9, 14)
The cup of vengeance you, my people, have drunk, there on that mountain which is my sanctuary, all the heathen shall drink henceforward; drink, ay, drink deep, and fall into forgetfulness, as if they had never been. (Obadiah 1, 16)
Trust me, when lands are allotted among the Lord’s people, never shall one of yonder clan have rope to throw.✻ (Micah 2, 5)
but what of you? Has not this people of mine long counted you enemies, rising up to arraign you? Robbers, that will have cloak and coat both; what marvel if simple folk are up in arms against you? (Micah 2, 8)
My people! And you would dispossess its women of the homes they loved, take away from its children … my glory for ever.✻ (Micah 2, 9)
Alas, that I should be one beckoned by the spirit, and not rather some forger of lies! Wine and revel to inspire him, he might prophesy, and a people such as this take him for an oracle: (Micah 2, 11)
My people! And you will gnaw flesh of them, tear skin of them, break bones of them; cut them to pieces, meat for your pot, roast for your oven! (Micah 3, 3)
And this message the Lord has for prophets that guide my people amiss, prophets that must have their mouths filled ere they will cry, All’s well; sop thou must give them, else thou shalt be their sworn enemy. (Micah 3, 5)
A multitude of peoples will make their way to it, crying, Come, let us climb up to the Lord’s mountain-peak, to the house where the God of Jacob dwells; he shall teach us the right way, we will walk in the paths he has chosen. The Lord’s command shall go out from Sion, his word from Jerusalem; (Micah 4, 2)
Marvel not, then, if the Lord abandons his people✻ for a time, until she who is in travail has brought forth her child; others there are, brethren of his,✻ that must be restored to the citizenship of Israel. (Micah 5, 3)
