Trouvé 618 Résultats pour: Jacob's Prayer
Short work had these made of all the land yielded; Ah, Lord God, said I, be merciful! How should Jacob survive, the puny creature he is? (Amos 7, 2)
Ah, Lord God, said I, for pity! How should Jacob survive, the puny creature he is? (Amos 7, 5)
By Jacob’s ancient renown the Lord swears it, crimes of yours shall remain for ever unforgotten. (Amos 8, 7)
Divine regard that watches ever this kingdom, marks ever its guilt; I will blot it out, believe me, from the face of the earth.And blot out the name of Jacob altogether? Nay, not that, the Lord says. (Amos 9, 8)
But here, on mount Sion, all shall be deliverance, all shall be holiness, and their spoilers the men of Jacob shall despoil. (Obadiah 1, 17)
A fire Jacob shall be, a living flame the sons of Joseph, and Esau’s race stubble before their onset; the spark once kindled, all shall be consumed, and of Esau’s race no memory be left; the Lord decrees it. (Obadiah 1, 18)
This was the prayer which Jonas made to the Lord his God, there in the belly of the sea-beast: (Jonah 2, 2)
Daunted this heart, yet still of the Lord I would bethink me; prayer of mine should reach him, far away in his holy temple! (Jonah 2, 8)
And thus he made his prayer to the Lord: See if this be not the very thought I had, far away in my own country! Good cause had I to seek refuge at Tharsis from such an errand as this. I knew from the first what manner of God thou art, how kind and merciful, how slow to punish, how rich in pardon, vengeance ever ready to forgo. (Jonah 4, 2)
Up rose the sun, and at the Lord’s bidding the sirocco came; here was Jonas with the sun’s rays beating on his head, and all of a sweat. Now indeed his heart’s prayer was, he might die; Better death than life, said he. (Jonah 4, 8)
Alas, what betokens it? What but Jacob’s going astray, what but guilt of Israel’s line? Head and front of Jacob’s sinning Samaria needs must be, sure as Jerusalem is Juda’s place of pilgrimage.✻ (Micah 1, 5)
What, cry they of Jacob, is the Lord so easily offended? Are his designs indeed so unfavourable? Nay, certain it is, if a man will follow the straight path, award of mine shall prosper him; (Micah 2, 7)
