Trouvé 1275 Résultats pour: Holy City
here am I beginning my work of vengeance with that city which is the shrine of my name, and shall you be acquitted, you others, and go scot-free? That shall never be, says the Lord of hosts; to the sword if I appeal, it is for a whole world’s punishment. (Jeremiah 25, 29)
With such words as these thou shalt prophesy to them: From on high, from his holy dwelling-place, the Lord makes his voice heard, terrible as lion roaring; as roar of lion against sheep-fold, and that fold his own! Loud echoes his vintage-cry as he treads down all the dwellers on earth; (Jeremiah 25, 30)
or this sanctuary, too, shall be deserted as Silo, and this city shall be an accursed name, all the world over. (Jeremiah 26, 6)
What, would he threaten in the Lord’s name that this temple is to share Silo’s doom, this city to be left forlorn, uninhabited? There, in the Lord’s house, Jeremias must confront the anger of a whole people. (Jeremiah 26, 9)
To nobles and to people Jeremias had but one defence: Nothing have I said against temple or city but what the Lord’s errand bade me. (Jeremiah 26, 12)
Only be sure of this, if you kill me, you will bring the guilt of murder on yourselves, your city, and all that dwell there; no word you have heard from me but has the Lord’s true warrant. (Jeremiah 26, 15)
Another prophet there was that came in the Lord’s name, Urias, the son of Semei, a man of Cariathiarim, and used no gentler language about this city and country than Jeremias himself. (Jeremiah 26, 20)
do not let them deter you from submitting to the king of Babylon, your only hope of safety; shall this city become a desert? (Jeremiah 27, 17)
Prophets if they be, spokesmen of the Lord if they be, let them rather plead with him, the Lord of hosts, that the treasures still left in temple and palace and city may not find their way to Babylon too. (Jeremiah 27, 18)
when Joachim’s son Jechonias, that once reigned in Juda, was carried off to Nabuchodonosor’s capital at Babylon, with all the notables of this city and realm. (Jeremiah 27, 20)
This he would have you know, he, the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, that all the treasures left in temple, palace or city (Jeremiah 27, 21)
Nay, says the Lord, I mean to bring tent-dwelling Jacob home, have pity on those ruined walls, build the city anew on its height, set up the temple and its ordinances anew; (Jeremiah 30, 18)
