Znaleziono 1275 Wyniki dla: Holy City
Like river in flood, like foaming torrent marches Egypt to battle, threatening to cover earth with its advance, drown city and citizen. (Jeremiah 46, 8)
Waters rising in the north,✻ the Lord says, a river that overflows its banks, covering earth and earth’s increase, city and citizen! Loud the cries everywhere, a whole world in lament, (Jeremiah 47, 2)
City so renowned, home of such delights, must all abandon her? (Jeremiah 49, 25)
Archers a many with bent bows, give them orders how the city must fare: Stand about in a ring, let never a man escape, pay it what its deeds have earned; to Babylon do as Babylon did to others, the city that was the Lord’s enemy, defied the holy One of Israel. (Jeremiah 50, 29)
Juda’s God, the Lord of hosts, has not altogether forsaken her, and to that holy One of Israel the whole land is forfeit. (Jeremiah 51, 5)
Alas, we are all confusion; what taunts we must listen to, shame-faced, now that the Lord’s holy temple by alien intruders is defiled!✻ (Jeremiah 51, 51)
the mighty stir of the city will be drowned, when the Lord lays it waste, by the surge of armies, wave upon wave, and the noise of their shouting. (Jeremiah 51, 55)
and so the city continued beleaguered until king Sedecias’ eleventh year. (Jeremiah 52, 5)
Then, on the ninth day of the fourth month, when famine had broken out in the city and the poorer folk had nothing left to eat, (Jeremiah 52, 6)
a breach was made in the walls; and that night all the fighting men made their escape by way of the gate between the two walls, by the royal garden, leaving the Chaldaeans to continue the siege of the city. They chose for their flight the road which leads to the desert, (Jeremiah 52, 7)
Then Nabuzardan carried off the remnants of the people that were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to Nabuchodonosor, and the common folk generally; (Jeremiah 52, 15)
and among the citizens, the chamberlain who commanded the army, seven other courtiers who were left in the city, the secretary who was charged with the army and had the levying of recruits, and sixty surviving citizens of the common sort. (Jeremiah 52, 25)
