Sentences with phrase «oracles against»

46 - 51 This is a collection of oracles against foreign nations (cf. Isa.

Appreciable sections of the Hebrew are missing altogether in the Greek (about twelve percent, in bulk of words); and the block of oracles against foreign nations (chs.

We noted in the book of Isaiah a miscellaneous collection of oracles against foreign nations in chapters 13 - 23.

10:5 ff.; Amos 1 - 2; and the blocks of oracles against the nations in Isa.

Graphic details abound in the oracles against the Philistines (ch.

Once again, in the oracles against the nations (chs.

and Amos 1 - 2), but also of the collection and arrangement of oracles against foreign nations going on in prophetic circles and resulting in such blocks of material in the prophetic canon as Isa.

25 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, «Take him up, and cast him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the Lord uttered this oracle against him: 26 «As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons — says the Lord — I will requite you on this plot of ground.»

The oracle against Edom in Isaiah 34 is prefaced by another picture of a final war.

A whole section of Jeremiah is devoted to oracles predicting war against Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam (Jeremiah 46 - 49), followed by a long oracle against Babylon (50; 51).

John Cavanaugh, Notre Dame's president emeritus, followed Ellis» reproach with an oracle against Catholics» «inferior position where culture and intellectual achievement are concerned.»

An oracle against Egypt: Look, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt.

1 - 2 A series of oracular indictments (of Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judah, and Israel) climaxed in the final oracle against Israel.

1 -11,26-32); or what is surely one of the Old Testament's most sensitive creations, the oracle against the shepherds in chapter 34; or in chapter 47, the moving description of the stream flowing from the Temple, increasing in breadth and volume and majesty as it flows, bringing life, healing, and fruitfulness all along its redemptive course.

Some of these oracles may originate in prophetic circles quite independent of Jeremiah; but others — for example, the oracle against Egypt (46: 2 - 28) and those oracles directed against Moab, Ammon, Edom (48:1 - 49:27), and Elam (49:34 - 39)-- may well be fashioned in present form from authentic oracles of Jeremiah.

Not exact matches

Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today.»

In Isaiah there are extensive oracles predicting war against Babylon (Isaiah 13 - 14,21), Assyria (14,30,31), Philistia (14), Moab (15 - 16), Damascus (17), Ethiopia (18), Egypt (19), Edom (21, 34), Arabia (21), Tyre and Sidon (23).

It warns against believing the calculations of the understanding, which are more perfidious than the oracles of ancient times.

In one of Isaiah's oracles, his prophetic ire against pride in every form sweeps up for condemnation an astonishing category of objects:

Probably shortly after Sennacherib's siege he delivered an oracle to his own people far more severe than that directed against Assyria.

«good evening beautiful blue» includes Rondinone's clockwork for oracles II (2008), a multi-wall installation comprised of 52 - mirrored windows (one for each week in the year) set against a backdrop of whitewashed pages from a local newspaper and vocabulary of solitude (2014 - 2016), an installation of 45 life - size clown figures cast from 22 men and 23 women of various ages and ethnicities.

Also on view is clockwork for oracles II (2008), a multi-wall installation comprised of 52 - mirrored windows (one for each week in the year) set against a backdrop of whitewashed pages from the Miami Herald.