Sentences with phrase «in lamentations»

Both men and their closest aides have dropped any pretense of cordiality, sniping at each other on Twitter and in interviews; Mr. de Blasio, in particular, has adopted an Oprah - like confessional tone in his lamentations.

To the Protestant mind, the passages George points out in Lamentations, Isaiah, Micah, and Jeremiah are understood quite well without reference to Mary.

«Let us lift up our hearts and hands to heaven,» we read in Lamentations 3:41.

The suffering poetically presented by Monika Weiss shows the lineaments of a history and a political community that are far more complex and demanding than is usually thought, and that are capable of incorporating, rather than segregating, those who have been perennially absent: the victims and the defeated» wrote Adriana Valdes in Lamentation and the Locus of Memory: Monika Weiss's Sustenazo (Lament II)(2012).

The story progresses through the Annunciation — his rise to riches as his computer company is sold for millions — and culminates in the Lamentation, with Tim dying in a highway crash against a backdrop of PCWorld, McDonald's, and Homebase signs.

Not exact matches

Read Lamentations 1:8 - 22 to see what transpired in the heavens to cause such a great fall.

Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

The day of Yahweh's judgment, a joyous day in the exodus texts and in the Psalms, has been turned into a day of lamentation and distress by a people of Israel who have turned into the oppressors of the poor in their midst (Amos 2:6 - 8; 5:18 - 20, 21 - 24; Isa.

There is in general an undertone of lamentation when people speak of manipulation which points to idealistic expectations — as if the class enemy had ever stuck to the promises of fair play it occasionally utters.

We hear the lamentations of Rachel in the scene of the Herodian massacre of the innocent babes in Bethlehem uner the tyranny of the Roman Empire.

This has undoubted advantages - in Byzantium the Patriarch had the right of official «lamentations,» of pleading the cause of the disenfranchised before the government.

From the Psalms we learn praise and imprecation, lamentation and the deep lullaby that allows us to «lie down and sleep, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety» (Ps.

I'll try to relax and think of some of the other verses that they had in the that book of Fermentations that used to come after Lamentations before they took it out of the OT.

(Revelation 6:10) The writer of Lamentations, bewailing the miserable estate of desolated Zion, cried, «Do unto them, as thou hast done unto me»; (Lamentations 1:22) Nehemiah, rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, besought Yahweh against his foes, «Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee»; (Nehemiah 4:5) and in the Psalter are outbursts of vindictiveness the singing of which in the second temple seems scarcely credible:

(Lamentations 2:19) Quality in prayer depends not alone on spiritual insight but on social circumstance.

Now the people lived in the land of the dreaded enemy, reciting litanies of lamentation while ghouls goaded them on with «Sing us some of those songs of Zion, miserable losers!

This election of Jesus for salvation and the baby boys for reprobation eventuates in the sorrow of their mothers, whose weeping fulfills the Scriptures: «Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are not» (Mt. 2:17 — 18in the sorrow of their mothers, whose weeping fulfills the Scriptures: «Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are not» (Mt. 2:17 — 18In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted, because they are not» (Mt. 2:17 — 18).

Over and over in the Old Testament God says He does not take pleasure in the punishment of the wicked (Ezekiel 18:23, Lamentations 3:32 - 33).

So you claim Maccabees, Enoch, Jubilees, Psalms 152 - 155, the Prayer of Solomon, Ascension of Isaiah, Baruch, Ethiopic Lamentations and many more to be complete modern fabrications that were never included by early Christians or Jews in their early canons thus making the current version the only true version that has ever actually existed?

I find that many commentators of Psalms of Lamentations follow Westermann in affirming that an overly Pauline - oriented theology in terms only of sin does not take seriously the implication of relating the story of the Passion of Jesus in terms of the lament of Ps.

When you do look at references to cannibalism in the Old Testament, you can infer from the context of Deuteronomy 28:53 - 57, Leviticus 26:29, 2 Kings 6:26 - 29 and Jeremiah 19:9, Ezekiel 5:10, and Lamentations 4:10 that just as much as now people at time understood it to be an act of desperation, but it is never explicitly forbidden by God.

(As in Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:26 - 28; Lamentations 3:55 - 58.)

«Along with the sound of wise men and shepherds, of the angels and all the heavenly host praising God and singing,» writes Morse, «there is this other sound — the sound of «a voice heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they were no more.»»

Regardless of the bleak condition of the flock, Jesus hangs a clanging bell around the neck of the blackest sheep in the darkest pit, a bell powered by their own lamentations.

Desperate for answers, I turned to the most melancholy parts of the Bible I could find: David's grief - stricken psalms; Ecclesiastes, in which the writer declares that life is meaningless; and Lamentations, written in the form of a funeral dirge.

Some of the clearest statements regarding Yahweh's antagonistic warfare against Israel are found in the collection of poems known as the book of Lamentations.

To the concept of the king as a being, in his religious significance, apart from and above his people, we have numerous allusions: Jeremiah refers to public lamentations at the death of a king such as clearly relate them to the ritual of the fertility - god (Jer.

It is sometimes called the dirge measure, since it is the meter, for example, of the Book of Lamentations; but this is too restrictive; in reality it is widely invoked in more emotional poems, and occurs often merely as a release from a uniform 3:3 measure.

One last piece of background material to this parable is the saying in Midrash Lamentations Rabbah 4.2: «None of them (men of Jerusalem) would attend a banquet unless he was invited twice.»

But silence is most frequently called upon in Rodrigues» personal lamentations to God, during which he wonders why God remains silent in the suffering of His people.

Soong - Chan: I am currently working on a commentary on the book of Lamentations and in that book I examine the absence of lament in the American church.

This appears with great poignancy in the Book of Lamentations.

To put the point in theological language, glorifying God is an activity essentially sustaining a basic contrast between lamentation and thanksgiving.

Another friend, when reading of the horrors occurring in Bosnia - Herzegovina, could only vent his emotion by turning to the Book of Lamentations.

April 16, 2012 at 11:26 am Disgruntledness becoming the unrighteousness renditionings of verboseness and in rancidities» lamentations do the dogs waggle and waddle upon dribblings of their ownliness fruits!

The tone of the dirge is seldom relieved; but here and there explicitly, and much more pervasively implicitly, Lamentations affirms Yahweh's continuing purpose in history and his reign over the world of nations.

The book of Lamentations was written, not simply to memorialize the tragic destruction of Jerusalem, but to interpret the meaning of God's rigorous treatment of his people, to the end that they would learn the lessons of the past and retain their faith in him in the face of overwhelming disaster.

And at this climax, Lamentations embraces words that have continued to bring incalculable solace to persons in all branches of biblical faith in all time: Yahweh will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love (hesed); for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

They do not have real life, which is full of tears, lamentation, and «HAN» (a deep sense of justice rising in people's hearts, when they are wronged in history), as well as joy and happiness.

Much modernist / postmodernist literature and art is directly and thematically either lamentation about, or defiant proclamation of, hopelessness: promises, our artists tell us in drumbeat monotony, should not be made, because they can not be kept.

(btw, did we not hear exactly these lamentations for weeks, as in we are doomed and H. Walker 2.0 and we won't be able to afford ANYBODY ELSE?)

How refreshing, after Charles Barkley's narcissistic posturing a few issues ago, to read of Brown's obviously genuine dedication to the plight of inner - city black youth and his lamentations that today's megarich black athletes show so little real interest in doing anything about it.

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This lamentation however will do little to convince Ghanaians that he has the mettle to deal with obvious wrongdoing in his party and government.

In a apparent response to President John Dramani Mahama's lamentations that there's a media cabal blocking the good news of his government to Ghanaians, Mr Pratt cautioned political leaders to «stop looking for neutral Communicators... it's a mark of naivety and some times, a mark of something else to be looking for neutral Communicators.»

Still, the culprits are less the PDP - era crooks, bitterly licking their wounds; but more the starry - eyed romantics, doubled over in sweet lamentation over the present, in a quixotic voyage to a magical future!

Some might say that UKIP remains the odd - one out here, but while Farage, in his tweed suit, may exude lamentation for a bygone era, others in the party are fully signed up to the future, and what's more, they see at as theirs for the taking.

But in his response to the Chairman's lamentation, Kwaku Agyemang - Manu indicated that the approval of loan facility with African Development Bank has been procured and all that's left is the value for money report.

This romantic lamentation does not have a place in this speech.

In their view, the headmistress» lamentation about the school's plight seeks to portray the government in a negative light especially when it comes barely after the President touted several achievements in the education sector at last Thursday's state of the nation addresIn their view, the headmistress» lamentation about the school's plight seeks to portray the government in a negative light especially when it comes barely after the President touted several achievements in the education sector at last Thursday's state of the nation addresin a negative light especially when it comes barely after the President touted several achievements in the education sector at last Thursday's state of the nation addresin the education sector at last Thursday's state of the nation address.