Fondare 896 Risultati per: Fortified City

• till one city must supply water for three neighbours, and none had its fill, and you would not come back to me. (Amos 4, 8)

• Ay, the Lord God says, but a hundred citizens, but ten villagers left to you, city that marched out a thousand, village a hundred strong! (Amos 5, 3)

• At his glance falls ruin on the strong, devastation on the fortified. (Amos 5, 9)

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

• By my divine power I swear it, says the Lord God of hosts, pride of yours shall weary me, great houses of yours shall offend my sight, no longer; city and citizens, I will leave you at the enemy’s mercy. (Amos 6, 8)

• Here, then, is the divine doom pronounced on thee: Wife of thine, here in the city streets, shall be dishonoured; sons and daughters of thine shall die at the sword’s point; lands of thine shall feel the measuring-rope. And for thyself, on unhallowed soil death awaits thee, when Israel is banished, as banished it needs must be, from the land of its birth. (Amos 7, 17)

• He overthrown, and thou wouldst find thy way in at the gates of my own city; he overthrown, and thou wouldst rejoice at his discomfiture; he overthrown, and thou wouldst offer him battle? (Obadiah 1, 13)

• Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; I would have thee preach to them; great guilt of theirs claims my cognizance. (Jonah 1, 2)

• Up, and to the great city of Nineve make thy way; there preach, what preach I bid thee. (Jonah 3, 2)

• That voice he obeyed; rose up and took the road for Nineve, a great city indeed, three days’ journey from end to end. (Jonah 3, 3)

• Jonas had left the city, and sat now under a little arbour he had made for himself on the east of it, waiting there in the shade to see what doom would fall on Nineve. (Jonah 4, 5)

• And what of Nineve? Here is a great city, with a hundred and twenty thousand folk in it, and none of them can tell right from left, all these cattle, too; and may I not spare Nineve? (Jonah 4, 11)