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. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with the fire... Genius of Universal Emancipation - Pàgina 1711833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Samuel Joseph May - 1832 - 40 pàgines
...respectfully offer it to the perusal of my fellow citizens of New-England. THE AUTHOR. A. DISCOURSE. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy. TO-MORROW is our nation's Jubilee! Millions will hail it with exultation ! Again will the history of... | |
| John Robert McDowall - 1832 - 118 pàgines
...when the Lord hath not spoken. The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised Jobbery, and have vexed the poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I 31 sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me... | |
| Thomas Vincent - 1832 - 258 pàgines
...forgotten me:" for thU and other sins there mentioned, it is said, ver. 3, " Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath." Unto this sin of extortion I may add several other ways, that many in the city have had of getting... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pàgines
...vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken. 25 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 26 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me... | |
| Heman Humphrey - 1834 - 432 pàgines
...far, here may its proud waves be stayed and its angry billows be broken. INDIAN RIGHTS AND OUR DUTIES* The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for... | |
| David Lee Child - 1834 - 134 pàgines
...the Federal Constitution ; and affords a well founded hope of the perpetuity of that instrument. ' The people of the land have used oppression and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.' ' If thou dost not speak to ,warn the wicked of his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pàgines
...Ver. 26. Her priests have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. — Ver. 31. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon...consumed them with the fire of my wrath ; their own ways have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord. xxiii. 38. They have defiled my sanctuary,... | |
| 1837 - 588 pàgines
...Jehovah when he commanded them to cease their oppressions. And Ezekiel, also, confirms this account. "The people of the land have used oppression, and...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." (What a correct delineation of slavery and its effects.) "And I sought lor a man among them that should... | |
| 1838 - 148 pàgines
...Listen, then, to one of the many intimations he has given us of the way in which he will punish it. " The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised...yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully, and I sought for a man among them that should stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should... | |
| 1838 - 900 pàgines
...vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying. Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. 29 set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter...hands wax feeble : anguish hath taken hold of us, and 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me... | |
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