 | James Grahame - English poetry - 1817 - 188 pages
...42. " Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make thf poor of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Salbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsify' ing... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 754 pages
...chapter and the 5th verse, when reproving the wickedness of his countrymen, represents them as "saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn...? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth •wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit ?" That is, reducing... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 728 pages
...5th verse, when reproving the wickedness of his countrymen, represents them as "saying, when will Ihe new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit ?" That is, reducing... | |
 | John Everard - Sermons, English - 1819 - 276 pages
...day in seven, to set apart from secular occupations ; as they said in Amos, When will the new moons be gone, that we may sell corn, and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, #c. See Amos, viii. 5. And with respect to .the Jlfth commandment, which requires to honour parents,... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...10, 11, 12. • Jer. v. 28. t Jer. is. 8, 9. • Psal. 1. 16. « Psal. 1. 18, 19: . J P»al. 1. 21. When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn r and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying... | |
 | John Willison - Sunday - 1820 - 324 pages
...they complain in their hearts of the length of this day, as tlie Israel' ites of old, Amos viii. 5. " When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ; and the Sabbath, that we mayset forth wheat ?" They count all these days lost days, that bring them in no wo.rldly gain. Hence... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 514 pages
...your hearts with those profane 'is persons whom the prophet Amos describes, as saying, ft (viii. 5.) "When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sablmth, that we may set forth wheat?'1 If you are conscious that it is thus with you, I need scarcely... | |
 | Arminianism - 1842 - 1128 pages
...their own ways, nor finding their own pleasure, nor speaking their own words. But the ungodly say, " When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat ? " Some deny its moral obligation, — representing it as a piece of state policy, an invention of... | |
 | Hart Simonds - 1822 - 334 pages
...nna ombao : irmao oaina n\n in nan nan s^aan ^n nan mow *a 'a the poor>of the land to fail, saying. When will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, -that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...new moon; which day was always held sacred by the Jews: in which the people ceased from business. ' When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn;' Amos, chap. viii. ver. 5; but Le Clerc will not allow e^ov Jjfta^ here to be a festival : yet the same... | |
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Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat... 
