Fondare 1988 Risultati per: Israel's History
Thief caught in the act has less cause to blush than the men of Israel, king and prince, priest and prophet, with the rest. (Jeremiah 2, 26)
Out upon this age! Here is the Lord’s message, give good heed to it. Have I shewn myself unfriendly to Israel, like a desert, like a land overcast by shadows, that my own people has resolved to keep its distance, and come my way no more? (Jeremiah 2, 31)
It was in the days of king Josias the Lord said to me: Israel’s apostasy thou hast seen, how she ever betook herself to the nearest high hill or leafy wood, to play the wanton there; (Jeremiah 3, 6)
She too had seen it all, how I had bidden apostate Israel begone, and given her a writ of separation; and now treacherous Juda, unabashed, went off in her turn to play the wanton. (Jeremiah 3, 8)
And the Lord told me: Better than Juda’s treachery, the apostasy of Israel deserves to be acquitted. (Jeremiah 3, 11)
Carry this message of mine to the north country: Come back to me, apostate Israel, the Lord says, and there shall be no frown of mine awaiting you; I am merciful, the Lord says, and vengeance shall not last for ever. (Jeremiah 3, 12)
When that time comes, Juda and Israel will be united; together they will come back from the north country to the land I gave your fathers for their home. (Jeremiah 3, 18)
Hitherto, the Lord says, nothing could I win from Israel but a false jade’s contempt. (Jeremiah 3, 20)
Now, from yonder hill-passes, another cry is heard; a cry of mourning and lament from the sons of Israel, over the wrong path they have chosen in forgetting the Lord their God. (Jeremiah 3, 21)
The many gods of hill-side and mountain-side have played us false; we know it now; we know now that Israel must look to the Lord our God for deliverance. (Jeremiah 3, 23)
Do but retrace thy steps, Israel, and return to me, do but cast away the abominations that offend my sight, and in that mind persist; (Jeremiah 4, 1)
Obstinately they have defied me, the Lord says, Israel and Juda both; (Jeremiah 5, 11)
