 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 Seiten
...least unto the greatest." The misery and destruction of men is ascribed to the want of knowledge : "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God...By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and everything therein shall... | |
 | John Fox - 1855 - 268 Seiten
...ashamed to wear the devil's livery. May we not complain with the prophet and say, as Hosea iv. 1, 2 "There is no truth, nor mercy ,nor knowledge of God...swearing, and lying and killing, and stealing, and commiting adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood ; therefore shall the land mourn." And... | |
 | A. W. Plumstead - 1991 - 400 Seiten
...profession of the Gospel. In a general view of the present moral state of Great Britain it may be said: "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God...and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery" [Hos. 4. 1, 2], their wickedness breaks out; and one murder after another is committed under the connivance... | |
 | George Buchanan Gray - 1925 - 460 Seiten
...detection: with a slight and now generally accepted emendation the crucial passage reads : ' Yahweh hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,...truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. There is naught but false swearing and murder and theft and adultery : they break out and blood toucheth... | |
 | John Murray - 1957 - 274 Seiten
...but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth' (Jeremiah 9: 3). Hosea has the same complaint: 'Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel:...truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land' (Hosea 4: 1). When our Lord himself was made manifest to Israel, one of his severest indictments was... | |
 | Avi Erlich - 2010 - 298 Seiten
...fall together: Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. (Hosea 11) Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel:...shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therin shall languish. . . . Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall... | |
 | James Nohrnberg - 1995 - 426 Seiten
...exodus from Egypt. Hosea knows much of the essence of the law as it is found in the Decalogue itself: "the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants...adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood" (Hos. 4:1-2). He likewise knows about the exodus: "When Israel was a child," his Yahweh says, "then... | |
 | Michigan Joel A. Carpenter Provost Calvin College - 1997 - 362 Seiten
...EW Crowell, a Baptist pastor from Jackson, Michigan, that began with a text from the prophet Hosea: "the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants...blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn" (Hosea 4:1-3). Judging that America lay in the way of oiirushing peril, Crowell explained that it was... | |
 | Catherine Palmer - 1999 - 356 Seiten
...chagrin that he'd landed in Hosea. '"Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel,'" he read. " 'For the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants...adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.'" Oh, great. He'd preached plenty of sermons admonishing the wicked—in fact, the topic moved him deeply.... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 366 Seiten
...Israel (4:1-5) case against the human race. Hosea 4 presents God's court case against the Hebrew race: "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God...adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood" (4:1-2). The use of the polysyndeton (for example, "and... and... and") is intended to focus our attention... | |
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Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel : for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing... 
