 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).  A Walk about Zion: Revised and Enlarged - Page 36by John Alonzo Clark - 1842 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Dodd - 1828
...have withholden good things from you, <fec. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land : the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...rule by their means, and my people love to have it so : and what will ye do in the end thereof? — Jer. v. 7— 10. 25. 29-31. ix. 3— 9. Ezek. xx. 15,... | |
 | James Paterson - 1828 - 176 pages
...the Lord bath not spoken," (Ezek. xxfi. 25 — 28). Jehovah, himself, testified of them, saying, " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means: and my people love to have it so," (Jeremiah v. 30). Ye who are so far under the domination of the clergy, as to rest satisfied with the... | |
 | John Riland - 1828 - 275 pages
...place between the teachers and taught, in all religions not truly modelled upon the word of God. " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to hate it to." A collection of correspondent texts would readily detect the causes and consequences of... | |
 | 1829 - 285 pages
...have we not digged graves for the dead, even in the shadows of the altars of idols ? Hath any other * The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love^o have it so j and what will ye do in the end thereof? JEKEM. v. 31. child of Adam died in the... | |
 | George Fox - 1831
...falsely.' Jer. vi. 13. And again Jeremiah saith, 'A wonderful horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means, and my people love to have it so.' Jer. v. 30, 31. and viii. 10, 11. And did not Pashur son of Immer the high priest, strike Jeremiah,... | |
 | 1831
...spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, (v. 30,31.) "A wonderful and a horrible thing is committed in the land. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means ; and my people love to have it so ; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" In all his writings he desired to impress upon the minds... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831
...20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. The Jews had suffered much from false prophets ; " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means; and my people love to have it so."* Such had been too often the calamity of the Jewish nation. The Christian world is warned against a... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1831 - 59 pages
...kings, princes, and 'priests ashamed,' (26.) 'a wonderful and horrible thing is done 'in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear 'rule by their means; and the people love to hear it so,' (v. 30.) 'the priests are given to covetousness and deal falsely,'... | |
 | George Fox - 1831
...thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests preach for hire, or bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so, what will ye do in the end thereof?' And now people consider, is not this a filthy horrible thing committed... | |
 | Thomas Greenwood - 1832
...horrible thing is committed in the land," says the prophet, at the close of the preceding chapter : " The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear...by their means ; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" The Lord condescended, through his servant Jeremiah, to remonstrate... | |
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