Trouvé 6873 Résultats pour: Fear Of The Lord
What, no harm done, when victim you offer in sacrifice is blind? No harm done, when it is lame or diseased? Pray you, says the Lord of hosts, make such a gift to the governor yonder, will he be content? Will he make favourites of you? (Malachi 1, 8)
Ay, says the Lord of hosts, the guilt is yours. To the divine presence betake you, and sue for pardon; which of you finds favour with him? (Malachi 1, 9)
Never a man of you but must be paid to shut door, light altar-fire; no friends of mine, says the Lord of hosts, no gifts will I take from such as you. (Malachi 1, 10)
No corner of the world, from sun’s rise to sun’s setting, where the renown of me is not heard among the Gentiles, where sacrifice is not done, and pure offering made in my honour; so revered is my name, says the Lord of hosts, there among the Gentiles;✻ (Malachi 1, 11)
and you? That you should hold it so cheap! That you should think to yourselves, The Lord’s table is desecrated now; it makes no matter what food lies there, or what fire burns it! (Malachi 1, 12)
Weary work, say you, and dismiss it with a sigh. Beast mangled, beast gone lame, beast that is ailing you present to me, and the bloodless offering with it. And should the Lord of hosts accept the gift you make him? (Malachi 1, 13)
Cursed be the knavery that offers the Lord gelt beast, when vows are a-paying, and all the while there is an entire beast left at home!✻ Offers it to the Lord of hosts, the great King, no name in all the world so terrible! (Malachi 1, 14)
Give me neither heed nor hearing, says the Lord of hosts, let my name go unhonoured, and with sore distress I will visit you; falls my curse on all the blessings you enjoy, falls my curse …,✻ to the punishing of your heedlessness. (Malachi 2, 2)
So you shall learn your lesson; my law I gave you, says the Lord of hosts, in token of my covenant with Levi’s family. (Malachi 2, 4)
Live they should and thrive, but the fear of me I enjoined upon them; none but should fear, and hold my name in reverence. (Malachi 2, 5)
No utterance like a priest’s for learning; from no other lips men will expect true guidance; is he not a messenger✻ to them from the Lord of hosts? (Malachi 2, 7)
That path you have forsaken; through your ill teaching, how many a foothold lost! Nay, says the Lord of hosts, you have annulled my covenant with Levi altogether. (Malachi 2, 8)
