Talált 1518 Eredmények: Chosen People
Get thee gone, faithless people, to Lebanon, and cry out there; fill Basan with thy voice, and let Abarim✻ echo the cry again; ruin has overtaken all those lovers of thine. (Jeremiah 22, 20)
This is the Lord’s word to the shepherds that guide his people: You are the men who have dispersed my flock, driven it to and fro, and made no account of it; account you must give it me, says the Lord, Israel’s God, for all you have done amiss. (Jeremiah 23, 2)
For the prophets of Samaria how was it I lost all liking?✻ Because they were the spokesmen of Baal, and did but lead Israel astray, that was my people. (Jeremiah 23, 13)
Privy to my design had they been, ah, then they should have uttered my own warnings, and so I might have turned my people aside from false paths, and erring thoughts! (Jeremiah 23, 22)
Dreams bandied from mouth to mouth, for these would they have my people barter away the memory of me, as their fathers did for Baal? (Jeremiah 23, 27)
Out upon the prophets, I say, who dream all amiss and recount their dreams, leading my people astray with their lies and their mummeries; yet errand or warrant they had none from me, the Lord says, nor yet to this people of mine bring any advantage. (Jeremiah 23, 32)
And if people, or prophet, or priest, should greet thee with the question, Pray, what burden✻ is the Lord taking up today? thy answer shall be, You are the burden I bear, the Lord says, and I mean to cast you from my shoulders. (Jeremiah 23, 33)
And I will give them a heart to know me, know me by my divine name; they my people, and I their God, once in good earnest they have retraced their steps, and come back to me. (Jeremiah 24, 7)
Here is a message for the whole people of Juda, entrusted to Jeremias in the fourth year of Joakim’s reign (that was son to Josias) in Juda, the first of Nabuchodonosor’s in Babylon. (Jeremiah 25, 1)
Then, when seventy years have passed, I will call the king of Babylon to account, the Lord says, for all the wrongs he has done, with his people and with that Chaldaean country of his; that country in its turn I will leave desolate for ever. (Jeremiah 25, 12)
and all the mingled people of his realm. No king in the land of Hus but must drink of it, nor among the Philistine cities, Ascalon, Gaza, Accaron and Azotus, (Jeremiah 25, 20)
and when he had thus done the Lord’s errand for all the people to hear, priests and prophets and townsfolk laid hands upon him, crying out, His life must pay for it! (Jeremiah 26, 8)
