 | 1833 - 402 pages
...servants'of God from their churches, have prevented those who need instruction from receiving it ; " and to take away the right from the poor of my people,...widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless." The right of the poor is no less than the throne of Immanuel, and the indwelling of the... | |
 | James F. Otis - 1833 - 36 pages
...decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed : to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless ! And what will ye do in the day... | |
 | 1833 - 866 pages
...prescribed, • Ep. DT, 32. t ThcM? words OCTUI in the C'avc manuscript. } a Tim. iii. 12. to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the l>oor of my people."* Let my Lord, therefore, if it please him, listen to the counsels of his subject,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1834 - 142 pages
...decree " unrighteous decrees,and that write grievous" ness which they have prescribed ; To turn " aside the needy from judgment, and to take , " away the...widows may be their prey, and that " they may rob the fatherless." It would be endless to cite passages of the Scriptures, enjoining on those who have the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1834 - 298 pages
...prescribed." And, to what end are these decrees 1 Why this writing of grievQusness ? " To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to 'take away the right...poor of my people ; that widows may be their prey, 14* and that they may rob the fatherless." This is the end of such unjust laws ; and, indeed, it is... | |
 | George Duffield - 1835 - 128 pages
...that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right...widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless ! Isa. x. 1, 2. The Heavens cannot long remain serene. The black cloud of divine fury, is... | |
 | American Temperance Society - 1835 - 536 pages
...laws. Of this, Jehovah complained, Isa. xi 2. " Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees — that take away the right from the poor of my people, that...widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless." No decrees, probably, or laws, have ever made so many wives widows, and children fatherless... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed 1 to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right...widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless ! [lsai. x. 1, 2. UNBELIEF. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith. To-day, if ye will hear... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 882 pages
..., Numœ Pompilii, that write grievousness which R Rom'n- 3- they have prescribed ; 2 To turn aside rt of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities...in the LORD'S bouse, b all the words that I comman fatherless ! 3 And c what will ye do in d the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall... | |
 | 1837 - 328 pages
...that decree unrighteous decrees; and that write grievousness which they have prescribed, to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right...widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless: and what will ye do in the day of visitation? DEUT. 1:17. Ye shall not respect persons... | |
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For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still : woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from... 
