Talált 2044 Eredmények: Famine In Israel
Alas, what mantle of cloud is this, the divine anger has thrown over unhappy Sion? The pride of Israel cast down from heaven to earth; the ground where the Lord’s feet once rested, now, in his anger, forgotten? (Lamentations 2, 1)
Crushed lay all the defences of Israel, under his displeasure; failed us, at the enemy’s onset, the protection of his right hand; Jacob must be hedged about, as by flames of a consuming fire. (Lamentations 2, 3)
Enemies he counts us, and has engulfed the whole of Israel in ruin; gone the palaces, gone the strongholds; Alas, poor Sion! weeps man, weeps maid, with cowed spirits.✻ (Lamentations 2, 5)
Sleepless in the night-watches raise thy song; flow thy heart’s prayer unceasingly; lift ever thy hands in supplication for infant lives; yonder, at the street corner, they are dying of famine. (Lamentations 2, 19)
It were better to have fallen at the sword’s point than yield thus to the stab of hunger, wasted away through famine. (Lamentations 4, 9)
What wonder if our skins are burnt dry as an oven, seared by long famine? (Lamentations 5, 10)
That is why the Lord our God has made good his threats against us; against the rulers of Israel, whether kings or nobles, and against the common folk of Israel and Juda. (Baruch 2, 1)
Lord God of Israel, whose constraining hand rescued thy people from Egypt with portents and wonders, with sovereign power signally manifested, and won thee renown that is thine yet, (Baruch 2, 11)
prove to the whole world that thou art the Lord our God, that it was thy name Israel bore, and Israel’s race yet bears. (Baruch 2, 15)
their bones were cast out to endure sun’s heat and night frost, and great anguish they endured in their deaths, from the sword, and famine, and pestilence.✻ (Baruch 2, 25)
As for the temple that was the shrine of thy name, thou madest it into the thing it is this day, for Israel’s sin, for Juda’s sin. (Baruch 2, 26)
And merciful was the promise thou didst make to thy servant Moses, when thou badest him write down thy law for Israel’s acceptance. (Baruch 2, 28)
