| Prayers - 1838 - 320 pages
...cries of them that reap without hire, enter into thine ears : and thou hast denounced heavy wo against him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong — that nseth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. — How long, O Lord,... | |
| Prayers - 1838 - 314 pages
...the conviction of indebtedness, and the purpose of recompense. Great God, may I remember the wo of him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; and the reward of him that walketh righteously, and despiseth the gain of oppressions, and shaketh... | |
| Prayers - 1839 - 318 pages
...cries of them that reap without hire, enter into thine ears : and thou hast denounced heavy wo against him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and...service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. — How long, O Lord, shall the selfishness of man appropriate to itself the time and the toil of the... | |
| 1839 - 678 pages
...an awful woe on those who are guilty of such conduct. For Jehovah says, " Woe unto him that buildcth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's services without wages, and giveth him not for his work.'' Jer. xxii. 13. Sec also Jer. xxxiv. 17.... | |
| La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 154 pages
...Christianity, uphold a system which presents thin temptation both to the 7. Woe unto him that huildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong ; that useth his neigbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. Jer. xxii, 13. bond and free, and... | |
| Beaumont Square Chapel, Mile End (LONDON), John Thomas Barber Beaumont - 1840 - 204 pages
...robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. JEREMIAH, XXII., 13. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,...service without wages, and giveth him not for his work. MICAH. II., 1 to 3. Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds ! when the morning... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...the prophets had frequent cause to expostulate against this sort of oppression." (Jer. xxii. 13.) " Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,...service without wages, and giveth him not for his work." The selfishness of our nature takes sad occasion of exercise in these things. One party too often strives... | |
| James Duncan - Slavery - 1840 - 150 pages
...to any person in the business of keep, ing slaves, but there are some curses. Jeremiah, xxii. 13 : " Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong, that useth his neighbor's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work." It would even amount to blasphemy... | |
| James Grahame - Slavery - 1842 - 128 pages
...free, and that ye break every yoke?" Still more applicable to them is the prophetic imprecation :— " Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,...service without wages, and giveth him not for his work!" Will the malediction be eluded, will it not rather be aggravated by the plea that the house so unrighteously... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by...service without wages, and giveth him not for his work ; 14 That saith, I will build me cea wide house and large cham- that makest thy nest in the cebers,... | |
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