 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat : ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them ; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know your...  Cobbett's Weekly Register - Page 5611833Full view - About this book
 | A. Kuenen - Religions - 1882 - 394 pages
...Therefore," he concludes, " inasmuch as ye trample down the needy and take from him a tribute in corn, ye have built houses of hewn stone but ye shall not dwell in them, and planted fair vine-stocks but shall drink no wine from them. For I know your sins that they are... | |
 | Rufus Phineas Stebbins - Bible - 1883 - 264 pages
...predicted in Leviticus xxvi., 25 ; Deuteronomy vii., 15 ; xxviii., 27. In chapter v., n, the prophet says, "Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them " ; Deuteronomy xxviii., 30, where it is said, " Thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1883 - 380 pages
...the AV has another example in Jer. xxiii. 28, and the same is the case with the allusions in Amos, " Your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of bar ; . . . saying, When will the Sabbath be gone, that we set forth bar, making the ephah small, and... | |
 | Edward Abiel Washburn - 1884 - 166 pages
...denounces — " Ye have sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes " (Amos ii. 6). " Your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him...houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them ; for ye afflict the just, and turn aside the poor in the gate" (Amos v. 11, 12). "They covet fields,... | |
 | 1885 - 554 pages
...speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch n therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but...planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. For I ia know how manifold are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins ;... | |
 | 1885 - 558 pages
...speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch n therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but...planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. For I 12 know how manifold are your transgressions and how mighty are your sins ;... | |
 | John Henry Bridges - Positivism - 1885 - 88 pages
...the fortress. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor, And ye take from him burdens of wheat ; * In these places were ancient shrines of Jahveh. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall... | |
 | John Henry Bridges - Positivism - 1885 - 76 pages
...the fortress. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the poor, And ye take from him burdens of wheat ; * In these places were ancient shrines of Jahveh. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall... | |
 | Isaac Ogden Rankin - Prayers - 1918 - 324 pages
...9 — The Social Hope Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. . . . For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins — ye that afflict... | |
 | Heinrich Graetz - Jews - 1919 - 570 pages
...hundred left, and that which went forth an hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel . . . Forasmuch, therefore, as your treading is upon the...planted pleasant vineyards but ye shall not drink wine of them" (Amos 5:3, n). To those who considered themselves invulnerable, relying upon their wealth,... | |
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