Fondare 551 Risultati per: False Prophets
So false the friends that were once my suitors! And now the city lacks priests and elders both, that went begging their bread, to revive the heart in them. (Lamentations 1, 19)
Never a true vision or a wise thy prophets have for thee, never shew thee where thy guilt rests, and urge thee to repentance; lies and lures are all the burden of their revealing. (Lamentations 2, 14)
Prophets we had, but their word was peril and pitfall, and ruin at the last.✻ (Lamentations 3, 47)
Unheeded, that divine voice, when message after message came to us through his prophets; (Baruch 1, 21)
each must follow the whim of his own false heart, doing sacrifice to alien gods, and setting the will of the Lord, our own God, at defiance. (Baruch 1, 22)
and still we would not sue for the divine mercy, but each of us went on straying by false paths. (Baruch 2, 8)
But no; thou hadst given them due warning, through those prophets that were servants of thine, before letting thy angry vengeance have its way, and the warning went unheeded.✻ (Baruch 2, 20)
Recognize it at last they will, kings and peoples everywhere, that gods of wood, gold and silver are false gods, creatures of man, not creators. (Baruch 6, 50)
All your neighbours, the Lord God says, outdone in wickedness, my paths untrodden, my bidding unheeded! False even to the heathen traditions of yonder country-side! (Ezekiel 5, 7)
overthrow altar, break column, pile corpses before the false god’s feet; (Ezekiel 6, 4)
and these survivors, in their land of exile, shall once again bethink themselves of me. Wanton heart that played me false, eyes that hankered still after idols, shall be tamed now; they will look back with loathing on all the foul wrong they did, (Ezekiel 6, 9)
Who shall doubt the Lord’s power, when the dead lie thick at the feet of your idols and about your altars; on hill-top and mountain height, in forest covert and under spreading oak, where once men would burn fragrant incense to their false gods? (Ezekiel 6, 13)
