Fondare 1895 Risultati per: War

• Idly the gates of her sag towards earth, bars riven and rent; king and chieftain are far away, exiled among the heathen; tradition is dead, nor any prophet learns, in vision, the Lord’s will. (Lamentations 2, 9)

• Untended they lie on the bare earth, the young and the aged; maid and warrior slain by the sword! This day of thy vengeance was to be all massacre, thou wouldst kill unsparingly. (Lamentations 2, 21)

• Never hand or heart but must point heavenward this day! (Lamentations 3, 41)

• Bright they shone once in all their renown, the men of Sion, and now what are they? Little regarded as common earthenware, of the potter’s fashioning. (Lamentations 4, 2)

• Cub of jackal✻ is fed at its dam’s breast; and has my people grown unnatural towards its own children, like some ostrich in the desert? (Lamentations 4, 3)

• It was our fault if we would not listen to his warnings, would not follow the divine commands which he set before us. (Baruch 2, 10)

• But no; thou hadst given them due warning, through those prophets that were servants of thine, before letting thy angry vengeance have its way, and the warning went unheeded.✻ (Baruch 2, 20)

• Out of all this swarming multitude, thou didst say to him, what a sorry remnant of scattered exiles will be left, if my voice goes unheeded! (Baruch 2, 29)

• Listen, Israel, to the warnings that shall bring thee life; give attentive audience, if thou wouldst learn to be wise. (Baruch 3, 9)

• The heroes of old were nurtured there, men whose fame has come down to us from the beginning of time, huge in stature, great warriors; (Baruch 3, 26)

• and the name by which he will call thee for ever is, Loyalty rewarded, Piety crowned.✻ (Baruch 5, 4)

• Here follows a copy of the letter Jeremias sent to the prisoners whom the king of Babylon was carrying off to his own country, with the warnings God bade him give them. (Baruch 6, 0)