Talált 3833 Eredmények: Red

• let but thy oath, As the Lord is a living God! be a true oath, in loyal duty uttered; then shall all the nations learn to bless and to praise him. (Jeremiah 4, 2)

• Tale upon tale of ruin; a whole land laid waste, no cabin or hovel spared, suddenly, all in a moment! (Jeremiah 4, 20)

• Ah, reckless people of mine, that would not acknowledge me; blind fools, for mischief so shrewd, in well-doing so untutored!✻ (Jeremiah 4, 22)

• It is your wrong-doing that has altered their course; to guilt such as yours, blessings are denied. (Jeremiah 5, 25)

• pampered and sleek, they defy my will past all bearing; redress they deny to the widow, right to the orphan, justice to the poor. (Jeremiah 5, 28)

• Down with yonder trees, the Lord of hosts says, and build siege-works about Jerusalem; here is a city must be called to account for all the oppression that is harboured there. (Jeremiah 6, 6)

• Nay, but the divine anger burns within me, I can forbear no longer. I must blurt out my message to all, children playing in the streets, no less than warriors met in council; none shall be spared, husband or wife, greybeard or man of many summers. (Jeremiah 6, 11)

• What avails it to offer me incense from Saba, and the fragrant calamus that grows far away? Unwelcome to me your burnt-sacrifice, undesired your victims. (Jeremiah 6, 20)

• Will you but amend your lives and your likings, giving one man redress against another, (Jeremiah 7, 5)

• this house, shrine of my name and centre of your hopes, this home I gave to you and to your fathers, shall fare as Silo fared. (Jeremiah 7, 14)

• with sun and moon and all the starry host to witness it, their gods aforetime; gods so loved, so well served, so hailed, so courted, so adored! Those bones there shall be none to gather, none to bury; they shall lie like dung on the bare ground. (Jeremiah 8, 2)

• In all their wisdom, how disappointed, how bewildered, how entrapped! God’s word they cast away, and wisdom left them. (Jeremiah 8, 9)