| Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 pàgines
...a single instance of it? They have too high a veneration for them, too good an opinion of them ; " but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit." No people ever sinned against clearer light, or greater mercies. Their pretences to that which was... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1835 - 600 pàgines
...translated, 'they exchanged their glory for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass;' Jer. 2: 11, "my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit;" Hosea 4: 7. Greater folly than this exchange of the living and glorious God, for the mere image of... | |
| Seth Williston - 1836 - 664 pàgines
...for these oblige them utterly to renounce their idols. " Hath a nation," says the God of Israel, " changed their gods, which yet are no gods ? but my...changed their glory for that which doth not profit." He represents this backsliding people as saying, " I have loved strangers," (i. e, strange gods) "... | |
| John BARCLAY (Pastor of the Berean Assembly at Edinburgh.) - 1836 - 164 pàgines
...also in number more gods than one ; as the One God hath testified, saying, " Hath a nation changed her gods, which yet are no gods ? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit — Pass over to the isles of the Gentiles, and see, and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently,... | |
| 1838 - 900 pàgines
...diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 1 1 1 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are "yet Israel : and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.... | |
| 1836 - 462 pàgines
...10. which doth not profit. — I propose reading yin' Kb, [which may be written by.] See Jer. ii. 11. "My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit." b'yv Kba. Pocoek's Arabic MS. has, " they return not to profit," or, " to what is profitable." And... | |
| 1837 - 324 pàgines
...LORD ? And they that handle the law, knew rne not ; the pastors also transgressed against me. — 11. Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no...changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be ye astonished, O ye heavens, at this, be ye horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.... | |
| John Jebb (bp. of Limerick.) - 1837 - 454 pàgines
...unto Kedar, and consider diligently ; And see, if there be such a thing . Hath a nation changed her Gods, which yet are no Gods ? But my people have changed their glory, for that which doth not profit. This strong poetic language indicates, at once, the singularity, and the atrocity, of the crime complained... | |
| 1837 - 844 pàgines
...practices of those that hated and despised them. " Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods ? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and lie horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord,... | |
| Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 190 pàgines
...have walked after vanity, and are become vain ? " Hath a nation changed their gods, which care yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit."— Chap. ii. 5 and 11. " For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah : they have... | |
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