 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
 | John Hildrop - 1711 - 332 pages
...not fatisfied, V. 8. I have [mitten yon with Blafling and Mildew 3 &c. So Chap. f. v. ii. Forafmuch as your treading is upon the "Poor, and ye take from him Burdens of Wheat; ye have built Houfes of hewen Stone, but ye JhaB not dwell in them : Te have planted pleafant Vineyards, but ye flail... | |
 | Thomas Harmer - 1787 - 542 pages
...particular occajions, is alfo what is meant, I apprehend, by the prophet Amos, ch. v. 11, " Foraf" much therefore as your treading is upon " the poor, and ye take from him burdens of tf wheat -, ye have built houfes of hewn ftone, *( but ye mall not dwell in them, &c." The Bifhop of... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...prophets. Forasmuch therefor* as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take fi »m him feurt dens of wheat : ye have built houses of hewn stone, but...planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them ; your injustice will bring 12 a curie upon all you have. For I know your manifold transgressions... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...uprightly ; viicked oppressors hatt \ 1 active magistrates and faithful prophets. Forasmuch therefor« as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him bur», Vei. VI. LI dens of wheat : ye have built house s of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...rebuke the wicked man upon the bench of justice ; and they abhor him, that speaketh justly. V. 1 1 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,...houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Forasmuch therefore as ve do grievously oppress the poor, and extort from him costly gifts; howsoever... | |
 | 1808 - 558 pages
...provisions on particular occasions, is also what is meant, I apprehend by the prophet Amos, ch. v. 11, Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,...from him burdens of wheat; ye have built houses of heivn stone, but yc shall not dwell in them, $c. The Bishop of Waterford has translated the original... | |
 | 1808 - 598 pages
...the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, according to the margin, the fields of desire ; * again, Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in ' Exod. x. 15. " Tome 2. p. 152. This also may be of use to shew, that the depredations of the locust... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...Version 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... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - 1815 - 384 pages
...people : how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields." (Mieah ii. 1 —5.) " Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,...planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them."— " Take away from me the noise of thy songs ; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols!... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...fortress. 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 1 1 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor,...planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they... | |
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