 | Free Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1851 - 488 sider
...man's, who shall give you that which is vonr own ? ' Ezek. xxii. 29. The people of the land have iised oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Lev. xxv. 17. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt lear thy God : for I am the... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1852 - 790 sider
...like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings." (Jer. xxi. 12.) " The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...for a man among them that should make up the hedge, but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them." (Eze. xxii. 29—31.) "... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1852 - 96 sider
...prophets have daubed them with " untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies " unto them ;" that " the people of the land have used " oppression and...exercised robbery, and have vexed the " poor and needy." And then the Lord is represented as declaring: "I sought for a man among them that " should make up... | |
 | Christopher Cushing - 1852 - 488 sider
...forgavest the iniquity of my sin " ; and Rev. Mr. Jones preached in the afternoon from Ezekiel xxii, 30 : " And I sought for a man among them that should make up the lodge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it, but I found none."... | |
 | Thomas J. Vaiden - 1852 - 1038 sider
...priests and prophets of superstition, ever, from that to this day, as long as such faith exists. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and vexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Ch. xxiii. 39, " For when... | |
 | Thomas J. Vaiden - 1852 - 1048 sider
...long as such faith exists. 29. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and vexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Ch. xxiii. 39, " For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1853 - 530 sider
...oppression, lest the language made use of by the Almighty through hi* proplret, 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 my indignation upon them ; their own way have I recompensed upon their... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1853 - 384 sider
...vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord, when the Lord hath not spoken. That the people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy, aud have oppressed the stranger wrongfully, and that God now threatens to pour out his indignation... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1853 - 312 sider
...chap. xxii. 29, where one of the grievous charges which he presents against his countrymen is this : " The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and the needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." How very different are all these scriptural... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1853 - 540 sider
...3,'i, 34. Deut. x. 18, 19. be he that perverteth the judgement of the stranger." Ezek. xxii. 29. " they have vexed the poor and needy, yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." 3 John 10. "not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them... | |
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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. 
