 | George Bishop - New England - 1703 - 598 pages
...seen in this our-day, that the filthy and abominable thing is committed in the land, as it was of old, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and the people love to have it so. " But what will you do in the end thereof?" saith the Lord Almighty,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...avenged on such a nation as this ? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; 3 1 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 ? what can these things... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...insensibility: for as they are enemies to self-reflection, so they are to every thing which leads to it. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and mi) people love to have it so. — If any plain faithful preacher, who fears God and not man, should... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...people cause them to err. Ch. lii. 12. J.er. v. 30. A wonderful thing is committed in the land. Ver. 31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so. xiv. 14. I he prophets prophesy lies in my name, I sent them not,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 pages
...that, if a word be spoken against such preaching, the people are angry, and such refuse to come in ; " 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. 31. Why, our Lord... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...God represents it so in his own peo pie. "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." If ministers are right, in preaching plainly and pungently, then... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...shall be cast down, saith the Lord." " A won* derful 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 ?" O tf how dreadful will... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...avenged on such a nation as this ? 30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; 31 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? CHAP. VI. \J Ye children... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...avenged on such a nation as this ? 30. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land ; 31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love (ж) to bave it so : and what wiU ye do (y) in the end thereof ?" CHAP. XXII. (z)... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 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? To whom shall I speak and... | |
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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). 
