Fondare 4578 Risultati per: God
Penance she must do for that hey-day of idolatry, when the incense smoked, and out she went, all rings and necklaces, to meet her lovers, the gods of the country-side, and for me, the Lord says, never a thought! (Hosea 2, 13)
that name I stifle on her lips; master-gods of the country-side must all be forgotten.✻ (Hosea 2, 17)
to a people that was none of mine I will say, Thou art my people, and they to me, Thou art my God. (Hosea 2, 24)
The Lord’s word came to me: To wife that will have gallants a-courting her, shew thyself a lover yet. The Lord is yet Israel’s lover, that has no eyes but for alien gods, leaves grape for husk.✻ (Hosea 3, 1)
Then they will come back, and to the Lord, their own God, betake them, and to David that is their true king; the Lord, and the Lord’s goodness, holds them spell-bound at last. (Hosea 3, 5)
Listen, sons of Israel, to a message from the Lord, notice of a suit he prefers against all that dwell in this land of yours; a land where loyalty, and tenderness of heart, and knowledge of God is none. (Hosea 4, 1)
And what of my people? See where they have recourse to tree-stump or senseless wand, for an answer to their perplexities! Lust for strange worship swept them away, made them false to their troth with God; (Hosea 4, 12)
Wanton though Israel be, at least let Juda shun the wrong; not for them the way that leads to Galgal, Bethaven’s pilgrimage, or the oath taken by the living God …✻ (Hosea 4, 15)
A tender heart wins favour with me, not sacrifice; God’s acknowledging, not victim’s destroying; (Hosea 6, 6)
to me Israel cries out, My God! cries out, We acknowledge thee!✻ (Hosea 8, 2)
Israel gave birth to it, this calf of Samaria, that came of man’s fashioning, and god is none; it shall be beaten fine as filigree. (Hosea 8, 6)
The God that made them forgotten, Israel builds shrine and Juda stronghold still; but the fire I am kindling shall fall upon Juda’s cities, shall devour them, citadel and all. (Hosea 8, 14)
