| James Grahame - Sabbath - 1805 - 184 pages
...robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy : yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." — " Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity." NOTE 18 ap 49. 1. 614. The tyrant's arm. THE character of Bonaparte will furnish a specimen of more... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...that is, Nebuchadnezzar, who hath raised IS Babylon to its grandeur by the ruin of ether great cities. Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in or for the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity ? for that ivhich... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...it ; the materials of your stately palaces shall cry to God for vengeance against you ; saying, 12 Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity ! that is, Nebuchadnezzar, who hath raised 13 Babylon to its grandeur by the ruin of ether great cities.... | |
| James Grahame - English poetry - 1807 - 250 pages
...robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully." — " Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity." * The tyrant's arm.— P. 33. 1. 16. The character of Bonaparte will furnish a specimen of more monstrous... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...enlargeth his city Babylon, with those bloody spoils and rapines of other innocent nations ! II. 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity ? Behold, shall it not... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...1 1 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity ! 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the... | |
| William Thomas Bree - 1821 - 414 pages
...for destruction, and should survive their triumphs over the Jews but a short time. For, saith he, " is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire," or rather shall labour for that which shall be fuel for the fire, " and weary... | |
| Hart Simonds - 1822 - 334 pages
...wisdom has spread among the inhabitants of the whole universe, as explains Habakkuk, ii. 13 and 14. " Behold, is it not of the LORD of Hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity. For the earth shall... | |
| sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...cry out of the wall, " and the beam (c) out of the timber " shall answer it. 12. Woe to him (я) " that buildeth a town with blood, and " stablisheth a city by iniquity. 13. Be" hold, is it not of the LORD of Hosts, " that the people shall labour in the " very fire (,?),... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...^1 Woe to him that buildeth a town with ' * blood, Aceiz. and stablisheth a city by iniquity ! ~ 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people »• N«! shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary * themselves -j- for very vanity... | |
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