Fondare 1095 Risultati per: Sanctuary City
City thou wouldst found, city’s walls build up, with deeds of bloodshed and of wrong? (Habakkuk 2, 12)
Wrong done to Lebanon, scathe of the roaming beasts, shall recoil on thee; fear shall overtake them,✻ city of thine and all that dwell there, for men’s blood shed, and for fields ravaged. (Habakkuk 2, 17)
City is none so well fortified, pinnacle is none so high in air, but shall hear braying of trumpets and the battle-cry. (Zephaniah 1, 16)
And this was the proud city that dwelt so free from alarms, thinking to herself, Here I stand, with no rival; a desert now, lair of the wild beasts! Hisses the passer-by in mockery, and shakes his fist. (Zephaniah 2, 15)
Out on the rebellious city, the defiled city, so full of wrong!✻ (Zephaniah 3, 1)
prophets that are heedless men and treacherous, priests that profane the sanctuary and do violence to the law. (Zephaniah 3, 4)
Ah, thought I, now at least thou wilt learn to fear me, wilt profit by the warning! Here at least is a city that may be left habitable, send them what plagues I may! But no, early and late they would be at their perverse doings still! (Zephaniah 3, 7)
No need, then, to blush for wayward thoughts that defied me; gone from thy midst the high-sounding boast; no room, in that mountain sanctuary of mine, for pride henceforward; (Zephaniah 3, 11)
And this, too: A promise from the Lord of hosts! Yonder towns shall yet overflow with riches; Sion shall yet receive comfort, Jerusalem be the city of my choice. (Zechariah 1, 17)
Juda the Lord shall claim for his own, his portion in a holy land; still Jerusalem shall be the city of his choice. (Zechariah 2, 12)
To Sion I will return, so runs his promise, and make in Jerusalem my home; The loyal city, men shall call her, and that mountain where dwells the Lord of hosts, The holy mountain. (Zechariah 8, 3)
All the nations of the world I will muster to the siege of Jerusalem; taken the city shall be, and its houses pillaged, and its women-folk ravished; of the defenders, half will go into exile, and leave but a remnant in the city. (Zechariah 14, 2)
