Talált 1308 Eredmények: Loó

• Little they know God’s thoughts; little they guess his purpose is to store them up, like wheat on the threshing-floor! (Micah 4, 12)

• Bethlehem-Ephrata! Least do they reckon thee among all the clans of Juda? Nay, it is from thee I look to find a prince that shall rule over Israel. Whence comes he? From the first beginning, from ages untold!✻ (Micah 5, 2)

• Poor remnant of Jacob, lost among that multitude of peoples! Yet thrive it shall; does not the grass thrive, with dew and shower from the Lord to water it, nor looks for man’s tending, unbeholden to our human toil? (Micah 5, 7)

• On the Lord my eyes are set; it is to God I look for my protection; my own God, and will he deny me audience? (Micah 7, 7)

• Was there ever such a God, so ready to forgive sins, to overlook faults, among the scattered remnant of his chosen race? He will exact vengeance no more; he loves to pardon. (Micah 7, 18)

• … Flood-tide shall overwhelm the site of it;✻ ever his enemies find darkness at their heels. (Nahum 1, 8)

• Nineve, welcome sight as pools of water to the fugitive;✻ stay, stay! But never a one looks back. (Nahum 2, 8)

• Out upon thee, city of blood, full fed with treason and rapine, yet still at prey! (Nahum 3, 1)

• Bemused and helpless with fear, looking about for succour against the invader, so she was, so thou shalt be. (Nahum 3, 11)

• Have you no eyes for the world about you? Look upon it with wonder and awe; in your own days here be strange deeds a-doing, so strange, a man would scarce credit them if they were told in story.✻ (Habakkuk 1, 5)

• So pure those eyes, shall they feast on wrong-doing? Wilt thou brook the sight of oppression, look on while treason is done? Innocence the prey of malice, and no word from thee? (Habakkuk 1, 13)

• So many lands thou hast plundered, plundered thyself shalt be; enough nations are left for that; for men’s blood shed, and for fields ravaged, plundered the city shall be, and all that dwell there.✻ (Habakkuk 2, 8)