 | William Steel Dickson - 1812 - 522 sider
...hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion. Thy princes are like wolves ravening for prey. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; and have vexed the poor and needy." " Hear this, O priests ! Hearken, ye house of Israel ! and give ear, O house of the king ? execute... | |
 | William Steel Dickson - 1812 - 522 sider
...hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion. Thy princes are like wolves ravening for prey. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery ; and have vexed the p.oor and needy," • ; . --•* Hear this, O priests ! Hearken, ye house of Israel \ and give ear, O house'of the king!... | |
 | 1813 - 580 sider
...faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own ? i Ezek. xxii. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy ; y«a, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Lev. xxv. 17. Ye shall not therefore oppress one... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1813 - 450 sider
...and destructive prevalence. Hence God said concerning Judah, in the days of the prophet Ezekiel; 1 sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the yap before me, for the land, that 1 should not destroy it ; but I found none. Therefore have I poured... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - 1813 - 166 sider
...unjust also in mueh. f ij Kzek. 22. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exereised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy : yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Lev. 25. 17. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God : for I am the... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1813 - 254 sider
...spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. Prov. xxii. 22. The people of the land have used oppression, and have vexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger -wrongfully. ThereJbre I have poured out my indignation upon them, I have consumed them with the fire of my -wrath.... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1814 - 312 sider
...which distinguished that holy prophet, he closes his description with these remarkable words : Jlnd 1 sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gup before me for the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none. Let us not deceive ourselves... | |
 | 1815 - 614 sider
...vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - 1815 - 384 sider
...vanities, and divining lies unto them, saying, thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger, wrongfully." (Ezek. xxii. 18. 25. 30.)* Verily, the sanctuary must be cleansed, though the righteous One-^-the witnesses... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 sider
...' his chosen Hood before him in the gap ;'' and in Ezek. v:.ii. 30. God is represented as saying, ' I sought for a man among them that should ' make up the hedge, and stand in tie gap be' fore me. for the land, that I should not destroy ' it, but I found none." (s) v. 6. " That... | |
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And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it ; but I found none. 
