Trouvé 39 Résultats pour: Turning Away From God
Alone, with none to aid her, she is all-powerful; herself ever unchanged, she makes all things new; age after age she finds her way into holy men’s hearts, turning them into friends and spokesmen of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 27)
So would thy own nature manifest a father’s universal love; this food should humour the eater’s whim, turning itself into that which he craved most. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 21)
Or wouldst thou make slow work of turning to the Lord, and put it off from day to day? (Ecclesiasticus 5, 8)
Men will take to flight as deer or sheep would, with none to marshal them, each turning towards his own home, seeking refuge in his own country. (Isaiah 13, 14)
Never again cries of joy and mirth, never again the voice of bridegroom and of bride, never a mill turning, never a lamp to shine. (Jeremiah 25, 10)
Come they to fight against the Chaldaeans, it is but to strew those earthworks with their own dead bodies; in anger and scorn I will smite them down, turning my back on the city they have stained with such guilt …✻ (Jeremiah 33, 5)
What means it? Here be cowards turning their backs, here be great warriors slain; pell-mell they flee, and never a glance behind; peril is all around, the Lord says. (Jeremiah 46, 5)
At the sound of his voice, what mustering of the waters overhead! He summons up the cloud-wrack from the world’s end, turning the lightning into a rain-storm, bringing the winds out of his store-house; (Jeremiah 51, 16)
Grown weary of his altar, from his own sanctuary turning away in abhorrence, the Lord has given up yonder embattled towers to the enemy; their cries ring through the temple like shout of holiday. (Lamentations 2, 7)
Moved they to this quarter or that, they followed ever without ado the lead of the foremost; there was no turning about when they moved. (Ezekiel 10, 11)
But at last, to his own province turning back, he totters to his fall, and the fame of him is heard no more. (Daniel 11, 19)
Never silly dove so lost her wits as this Ephraim, now calling on Egypt, now turning to Assyria for aid! (Hosea 7, 11)
