 | Thomas J. Vaiden - 1852 - 1048 pages
...nature to entire conviction and condemnation, from respectable society. Hosea ch. iv. v. 1, "Because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." V. 6, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." V. 9, "And there shall be, like people, like... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Bible - 1853 - 496 pages
...seemed to set it utterly at naught, to make it absolutely ridiculous and monstrous. A holy nation! why, "there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land." A holy nation! why, " by swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they... | |
 | Susan Warner - Bible - 1853 - 868 pages
...Lord, ye children of Israel : for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. . My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge : because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will abo... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1853 - 522 pages
...seemed to set it utterly at nought, to make it absolutely ridiculous and monstrous. A holy nation, why ' there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land.' A holy nation, why ' by swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they... | |
 | A. W. Plumstead - 1991 - 400 pages
...profession of the Gospel. In a general view of the present moral state of Great Britain it may be said: "There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery" [Hos. 4. 1, 2], their wickedness... | |
 | George Buchanan Gray - Bible - 1925 - 460 pages
...emendation the crucial passage reads : ' Yahweh hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. There is naught but false swearing and murder and theft and adultery : they break out and blood toucheth... | |
 | John Murray - Religion - 1957 - 274 pages
...Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land' (Hosea 4: 1). When our Lord himself was made manifest to Israel, one of his severest indictments was... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood... | |
 | James Nohrnberg - Religion - 1995 - 426 pages
...found in the Decalogue itself: "the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 298 pages
...Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood... | |
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Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel : for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 
