Talált 1110 Eredmények: Great Distress
This doom, then, the Lord God utters: Distress and siege for such a land as this! All thy fastnesses shall be dismantled, all thy palaces spoiled. (Amos 3, 11)
By my divine power I swear it, says the Lord God of hosts, pride of yours shall weary me, great houses of yours shall offend my sight, no longer; city and citizens, I will leave you at the enemy’s mercy. (Amos 6, 8)
A time is coming, says the Lord God, when there shall be great lack in the land, yet neither dearth nor drought. Hunger? Ay, they shall hunger for some message from the Lord, (Amos 8, 11)
Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; I would have thee preach to them; great guilt of theirs claims my cognizance. (Jonah 1, 2)
But now the Lord sent out a boisterous wind over the sea, that raised a great tempest there, and the ship was like to have been broken all to pieces. (Jonah 1, 4)
And when they heard (for he told them all) that this was a man who would escape from the Lord’s sight, they were in a great taking of fear. What ailed thee? they asked. (Jonah 1, 10)
And what of Jonas? At the Lord’s bidding, a great sea-beast had swallowed him up; and there, in the belly of it, three days spent he and three nights. (Jonah 2, 1)
Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; there preach, what preach I bid thee. (Jonah 3, 2)
That voice he obeyed; rose up and took the road for Nineve, a great city indeed, three days’ journey from end to end. (Jonah 3, 3)
And now, at the Lord God’s bidding, an ivy-plant grew up over Jonas’ head, to give him shade and shelter after his toiling; and great joy he had of his ivy-plant. (Jonah 4, 6)
Great pity thou hast, the Lord said, for yonder ivy-plant, that was not of thy growing, and no toil cost thee; a plant that springs in a night, and in a night must wither! (Jonah 4, 10)
And what of Nineve? Here is a great city, with a hundred and twenty thousand folk in it, and none of them can tell right from left, all these cattle, too; and may I not spare Nineve? (Jonah 4, 11)
