Talált 6746 Eredmények: Trust In The Lord
It was in the days of king Josias the Lord said to me: Israel’s apostasy thou hast seen, how she ever betook herself to the nearest high hill or leafy wood, to play the wanton there; (Jeremiah 3, 6)
After all the warnings I had given, Juda, the treacherous, would never come back to me in good earnest, only with lying professions, the Lord says. (Jeremiah 3, 10)
And the Lord told me: Better than Juda’s treachery, the apostasy of Israel deserves to be acquitted. (Jeremiah 3, 11)
Carry this message of mine to the north country: Come back to me, apostate Israel, the Lord says, and there shall be no frown of mine awaiting you; I am merciful, the Lord says, and vengeance shall not last for ever. (Jeremiah 3, 12)
Only acknowledge thy fault, he tells thee, in deserting the Lord thy God and betaking thyself to the bowers of strange lovers, deaf to my call. (Jeremiah 3, 13)
Wandering hearts, the Lord bids you come back to him, and renew your troth; by ones and twos, from this city or that, from this clan or that, he will claim you for his own and bring you back to Sion; (Jeremiah 3, 14)
After that, the Lord says, when all is growth and fertility, no longer shall you have the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant for your rallying-cry; from thought and memory it will have passed away, nor any care shall be bestowed on the fashioning of it. (Jeremiah 3, 16)
It is Jerusalem men will speak of as the Lord’s throne; there at Jerusalem all the nations of the world will meet in the Lord’s name, the false aims of their perverse hearts forgotten. (Jeremiah 3, 17)
Hitherto, the Lord says, nothing could I win from Israel but a false jade’s contempt. (Jeremiah 3, 20)
Now, from yonder hill-passes, another cry is heard; a cry of mourning and lament from the sons of Israel, over the wrong path they have chosen in forgetting the Lord their God. (Jeremiah 3, 21)
Wandering hearts, come back to me, and all your rebel acts shall be pardoned.See, we come to thee; art thou not the Lord our God? (Jeremiah 3, 22)
The many gods of hill-side and mountain-side have played us false; we know it now; we know now that Israel must look to the Lord our God for deliverance. (Jeremiah 3, 23)
