 | 1837 - 340 sider
...Listen, then, to one of the many invitations he has given us of the way in which he will punish it. " The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have jexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully, and I sought for a man... | |
 | 1841 - 538 sider
...his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, nor of necessity; for the Lordjoveth a cheerful giver." "The people of the land have used oppression, and...exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy.'' " I the Lord love judgment. I hate robbery for bunitoffering." The above is a correct summary of objections,... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 630 sider
...remembering me of my covenant of mercy towards them, as though that should bind me. At other times, God sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in t/1e gap before him for the land, that he might not destroy it, but he found none**. Here Jeremy offers... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - 1839 - 154 sider
...LORD hath not spoken. Ezek. xxii, 28. 5. 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. Ezek. xxii, 29. 6. They traded the persons of men, and vessels of brass in thy market. Ezek. xxvii,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 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 fap before me... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1843 - 156 sider
...oppression, least the language made use of by the Almighty through his prophet, should be extended to us ; " The people of the land have used oppression and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully, therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; their own way have I recompensed upon their... | |
 | 1856 - 924 sider
...that filled up the measure of their iniquities, was the oppression of the stranger (Ezek. 22: 29). " The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." Also, in the prophecy of Zechariah, after the captivity and destruction of the city, " the word of... | |
 | 1844 - 490 sider
...liberality to the poor! Israel, in a degenerate age, is thus accused by the prophet Ezekiel: — " The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully," Ezek. xxii. 29. Solomon has left us several beautiful proverbs on this subject, which have become common... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 sider
...thereof are Hke wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 31. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1844 - 646 sider
...that the Lord complains that He had no one to convict Him, where it is said by Ez. 22, the Prophet, And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the way against Me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found l». 64, none. It is hence 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. 
