Fondare 27 Risultati per: Abominable

• All riot and revelry the temple became, once the Gentiles had it; here was dallying with harlots, and women making their way into the sacred precincts, and bringing in of things abominable; (2 Maccabees 6, 4)

• Cunning rogues they may be, yet altogether abominable; a fool he must ever be called, that lacks the true wisdom.✻ (Ecclesiasticus 19, 20)

• Vainly they sought holiness, that would purify themselves in secret gardens, behind shut doors, and all the while ate flesh of swine and field-mouse and other meats abominable; one end there shall be for all of them, the Lord says.✻ (Isaiah 66, 17)

• Into a land of plenty I brought you, to enjoy the fruits and the blessings of it; and you had no sooner entered it than you must needs defile it, my own land, turn my chosen home into a place abominable. (Jeremiah 2, 7)

• No township of thine, Juda, but must have its own deity, no street in Jerusalem but thou wouldst set up there altars abominable, where sacrifice is offered to the gods of the country-side! (Jeremiah 11, 13)

• To it they shall find their way, and rid it of all that is foul, all that is abominable there; (Ezekiel 11, 18)

• Nor was Samaria in her turn half so guilty as thou. It remained for thee to outvie thy sisters in crime, till thy more abominable doings put them in countenance. (Ezekiel 16, 51)

• Give the men of Israel, then, this message from the Lord God: Still the same ways your fathers went, still the same itch for things abominable? (Ezekiel 20, 30)

• Ill looks he will earn at yonder city gate, that finds fault; the wise word, there, is a thing abominable. (Amos 5, 10)

• A word with you, chieftains of Jacob’s line, rulers of Israel, that hold right abominable, and all justice pervert; (Micah 3, 9)

• pelted thou shalt be with things abominable, and foully bemocked; such a public show I will make of thee, (Nahum 3, 6)

• They profess recognition of God, but their practice contradicts it; it is they who are abominable, who are disloyal, who are ill qualified for the practice of any true virtue.✻ (Titus 1, 16)