 | George Bishop - New England - 1703 - 472 pages
...tears of the oppressed, the wine of the condemned, which you drink, as the prophet complained of old, "Thus saith the Lord; for three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803
...into their history, we find the complaint but too just. Could it be said they returned to God when they Sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; •when they had trodden down the head of the poor in the dust of the earth; when they added whoredom, and incest,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806
...a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the 6 palaces of Jerusalem, not excepting even the temftle. Thus saith the LORD ; For three transgressions of...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; they perverted justice for the smallest present ; e-ven a 7 pair of shoes or sandals would draw them... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807
...murmuring is heard all over the place, and adds no small pleasure to it." No. 1140.— AMOS ii. 6. They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for A pair of shoes. MAILLET, (Lett. xp 86.) amongst othe.r articles which are carried before a bride on the day of marriage,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808
...Kirioth ; and Moab shall die in much horror, in the midst of the tumults and shrieks of war. II. 6 Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. For that, upon every base and worthless bribe, they have yielded so far to he corrupted, as to sell... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810
...years before the earthquake. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, 1 will not turn away the punishment thereof: because...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn asiJe the way of the meek :... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 319 pages
...the bag of deceitful weights ;* and leads them into ways of oppression and cruelty, such as ' selling the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes,' &c. Amos ii. 6. I know not any sin in the world, but what this sin of self-seeking will set men upon,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812
...murmuring is heard all over the place, and adds no small pleasure to. it." No. 1140.— AMOS ii. 6. They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes. . xp 86.) amongst other articles which are carried before a bride on the day of marriage, mentions... | |
 | 1815
...the palaces of Jerusalem. 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, 1 will not turn away the punishment thereof; because...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes ; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek... | |
 | Levy Alexander, David Levi - 1821
...of Esau ; and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. . HAPHTARAH VAU-YISHAP; AMOS, CHAP. II. Каю Omar. Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of Israel,...righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes: that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek;... | |
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Thus saith the Lord ; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes... 
