 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...unto them adapt his text. Micah the 3d and llth affordeth good matter for courtiers and court-serving men. " The heads of the land judge for reward, and...divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?" Were the first minister to point out a preacher before the house of... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity! The heads thereof judge for a reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among us ?" (iii. 1—10.)—- " But in the last days it shall come to pass, that... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1816 - 374 pages
...the prophet JWicah ; The heads of Sion judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, ana the prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean upon the lord, and say, is not the Lord among us?\ As if God had said, nothing is so presumptuous and * Exod. xxx. 40.... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1821 - 382 pages
...described by the holy prophet Micah : ' The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ? — None evil can come upon us !' — They are, indeed, a blasphemous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...them adapt his text. Micah the iiid and 1 1th affordeth good matter for Courtiers and court-serving men. The heads of the land judge for reward ; and...for money : yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ? Were the first Minister to appoint a preacher before the House of Commons4,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...them adapt his text. Micah the iiid and 1 1th affordeth good matter for Courtiers and court-serving men. The heads of the land judge for reward; and the...for money : yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ? Were the first Minister to appoint a preacher before the House of Commons2,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 650 pages
...of God, by the prophet Micah : " The heads of Sion judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among us ' ?" As if God had said, nothing is so presumptuous and unreasonable... | |
 | William Bennet - 1822 - 298 pages
...described by the holy prophet Micah: «The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach, for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money : yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ?—None evil can come upon us !'— They are, indeed, a blasphemous... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 652 pages
...of God, by the prophet Micah : " The heads of Sion judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, is not the Lord among us • ?" As if God had said, nothing is so presumptuous and unreasonable... | |
 | William Cobbett - Conduct of life - 1823 - 308 pages
...prophet •MicAH,Chap. iii, V. 11. " The beads thereof judge for " reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the " prophets thereof divine for money : yet will they lean "" upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among v»? * None evil can come upon us." And what says the Lord, 'whose name... | |
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Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. 
