 | Robert Hall - 1846 - 596 pagina’s
...holy prophet, he closes his description with these remarkable words : And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...land, that I should not destroy it ; but I found none. Let us not deceive ourselves with vain words. The just displeasure of God, as it will by no means spare... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1846 - 422 pagina’s
...the poor and needy ; yea they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me in the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation... | |
 | David Marks - 1846 - 528 pagina’s
...needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully ;' yet when God has sought for men among us that should ' make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before him for the land that he should not destroy it,' he has found some precious ones that in the midst... | |
 | Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor - 1847 - 200 pagina’s
...poor and needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. And / sought for a man among them to make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for...Therefore, have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath ; their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pagina’s
...truth does God speak as to the dearth of such men among his old people ! " I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none." Not one man like Abraham, »ho could arm in defence of Lot. Not one (rap-man, who could supply the... | |
 | Matthew Hale Smith - 1847 - 422 pagina’s
...guilt that brought them down? "I sought for a man among them," said He to whom all judgment pertains, "that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap...before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, and I found none." But it is not to national and temporal judgments, though they might be terrible... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1847 - 564 pagina’s
...533, 534 When instituted— Enjoined. for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and Jtand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I II mini none. 31 Therefore, have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with... | |
 | Calvin Durfee - 1848 - 38 pagina’s
...the calamities of the Babylonish captivity. He says, [Ezek. xxii. 30, 31.] " I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...it ; but I found none. Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them." The world is more indebted to the righteous than it is willing to acknowledge.... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1848 - 436 pagina’s
...prayer of a godly Christian is a strong hedge, as God himself says: " And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none." occxxxn. "When Moses, with the children of Israel, came to the Red Sea, then he cried with trembling... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 414 pagina’s
...not one had been found to stand in the gap, and intercede for them. " And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before rne for the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine... | |
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And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 
