Talált 1518 Eredmények: Chosen People
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)
Remember the prophet Michaeas of Morasthi, they said, in the days of king Ezechias, who told the people of Juda: Sion shall be no better than a ploughed field, says the Lord of hosts, Jerusalem but a heap of stones, the temple height only a hanging wood.✻ (Jeremiah 26, 18)
But Jeremias had a friend in Ahicam, the son of Saphan, who would not let him be handed over to the people and put to death. (Jeremiah 26, 24)
Nation or people that will not be vassal to Nabuchodonosor, will not bow to Babylon’s yoke, I will punish with sword and famine and pestilence, until the last of them is left at his mercy. (Jeremiah 27, 8)
All this message I gave to Sedecias, king of Juda; Your lives shall be spared, I told him, if you will only bow your necks to the yoke, letting king and people of Babylon be your masters; (Jeremiah 27, 12)
will you court death, king and people at once, from sword, famine, and pestilence, the Lord’s threat against all who refuse submission? (Jeremiah 27, 13)
And this message I gave from the Lord to priests and people: Do not listen to those prophets of yours, who bid you expect the speedy return of the sacred treasures from Babylon. These are but lying prophecies; (Jeremiah 27, 16)
crying out before all the people, A message from the Lord! Thus, when two years have run their course, I will break the yoke which king Nabuchodonosor of Babylon has laid on the necks of all the nations! (Jeremiah 28, 11)
This, too, Jeremias said to his fellow prophet, Listen, Hananias; errand from the Lord thou hast none, thou art cheating yonder people with false hopes. (Jeremiah 28, 15)
I will call Semeias of Nehelam to account for it, the Lord says, and his children after him. Man of his race there shall be none surviving among this people of mine, the Lord says, to see my bounty bestowed on it. Against me, the Lord, he has used the language of rebellion. (Jeremiah 29, 32)
A time is coming, the Lord says, when I will reverse the sentence of exile against my people of Israel and Juda; I, the Lord, will restore them to possession of the land I gave to their fathers. (Jeremiah 30, 3)
