Fondare 623 Risultati per: Human Sacrifice
A tender heart wins favour with me, not sacrifice; God’s acknowledging, not victim’s destroying; (Hosea 6, 6)
Appointed sacrifice✻ they still offer, flesh of the sacrifice still eat, but the Lord will have none of it; no more their guilt shall go unrecorded, their sins unpunished; Egypt once again for them! (Hosea 8, 13)
Libation shall be none to win the Lord’s favour, nor any sacrifice; bread of theirs shall be as the bread mourners eat, defiling to the lips; fill their bellies it may, but into the Lord’s house it cannot enter. (Hosea 9, 4)
If Galaad is all idolatry, vain the sacrifice of oxen that is made at Galgal; stone heaps their altars shall be, out in the plough-lands.✻ (Hosea 12, 11)
And they are busy yet over their sinning; melt down silver of theirs to fashion models of yonder images, craftsman copying craftsman’s design! And of such models they say, The man who would do sacrifice has but to kiss these calves.✻ (Hosea 13, 2)
for vineyard withered, and drooping fig-tree! Pomegranate, and palm, and apple, no tree in the wood but fades there; what wonder? Has not joy faded in human hearts? (Joel 1, 12)
Cry it to the nations, they should do sacrifice and muster their tried warriors for battle; rally they, march they, all that bear arms. (Joel 3, 9)
Burnt-sacrifice still? Bloodless offerings still? Nay, I will have none of them; fat be the victims you slay in welcome, I care not. (Amos 5, 22)
What, men of Israel, did you spend forty years in the desert, ever for me your burnt-sacrifice, ever for me your offerings; (Amos 5, 25)
mine to do sacrifice in thy honour, vows made and paid to the Lord, my deliverer! (Jonah 2, 10)
Poor remnant of Jacob, lost among that multitude of peoples! Yet thrive it shall; does not the grass thrive, with dew and shower from the Lord to water it, nor looks for man’s tending, unbeholden to our human toil? (Micah 5, 7)
How best may I humble myself before the Lord, that is God most high? What offering shall I bring? Calf, think you, of a year old, for my burnt-sacrifice? (Micah 6, 6)
