Act. 28.20. For the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. Rom. 5.2. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 4. Experience, hope: 5. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Rom. 8.24. We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25. But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Rom. 12.12. Rejoicing in hope. Rom. 15.4. That we, through patience and comfort of the scriptures, might have hope. 13. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. 13.13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three. 1 Cor. 15.19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. 2 Cor. 3.12. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. Gal. 5.5. We through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Eph. 1.18. That ye may know what is the hope of his calling. Eph. 4.4. Ye are called in one hope of your calling. Phil. 1.20. According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. Col. 1.5. The hope which is laid up for you in heaven. 23. Be not moved away from the hope of the gospel. 27. Christ in you, the hope of glory. 1 The. 1.3. Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 The. 5.8. For an helmet, the hope of salvation. Eph. 6.17. 2 The. 2.16. Our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace. 1 Tim. 1.1. Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. Tit. 1.2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Tit. 2.13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Tit. 3.7. That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Heb. 3.6. Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Heb. 6.11. Shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. 18. Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil. Heb. 11.1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 1 Pet. 1.3. According to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 13. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 21. That your faith and hope might be in God. 1 Pet. 3.15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 1 Jno. 3.3. Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. See FAITH EXEMPLIFIED. HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS, sons of Eli, covetousness and vices of, 1 Sam. 2.12-36. 1 Sam. 3.11-14. Death of, in battle, 1 Sam. 4.4,11,17. 14.6. Num. 21.4. Num. 33.37. A southern HOR, one of the mountains of Seir, Gen. boundary of the Israelites, Num. 34.7,8. Num. 33.38,39. Deu. 32.50. Aaron's death and burial on, Num. 20.22-29. HOREB. See SINAI. HORITES, original inhabitants of Idumea, Deu. 2.12,22. Gen. 36.20-30. 1 Chr. 1.38-42. Invaded by Chedorlaomer, Gen. 14.6. Dispossessed by the Edomites, Deu. 2.12,23. HORMAH. Israelites defeated at, by Amalekites, Num. 14.45. Deu. 1.44. They defeat king Arad at, Num. 21.1-3. Taken by Judah and Simeon, Jud. 1.17. Jos. 12.14. Given to Simeon, Jos. 19.4. 1 Chr. 4.30. Within the bounds of Judah. Jos. 15.30. 1 Sam. 30.30. HORN. Used as a vessel, 1 Sam. 16.1. 1 Kin. 1.39. 1 Kin. 22.11. Psa. 92.10. Psa. 132.17. SymIllustrative of power and prosperity, bolical, Dan. 7.7-24. Dan. 8.3-9,20. Hab. 3.4. Zec. 1.18-21. Rev. 5.6. Rev. 12.3. Rev. 13.1,11. Rev. 17.3-16. See TRUMPET. HORNET or WASP, Ex. 23.28. Deu. 7.20. Jos. 24.12. HORSE. Used in war for cavalry, Ex. 15.21. 1 Kin. 22.4. 2 Kin. 7.10. 2 Kin. 18.23. Job 39.19-25. Psa. 33.17. Pro. 21.31. Isa. 5.28. Jer. 4.13. Jer. 8.16. Jer. 12.5. Act. 23.23,32. In chariots, see CHARIOTS. Used for riding, 2 Kin. 9.18,19. Est. 6.8-11. Ecc. 10.7. Isa. 30.16. In agriculture, Isa. 28.28. Bells of, Zec. 14.20. Harness of, Jer. 46.4. Used in Egypt, Gen. 47.17. Ex. 9.3. Ex. 14.9. The Jews forbidden to multiply, Deu. 17.16. Rebuked for multiplying, Isa. 2.7. Isa. 31.1. Eze. 17.15. Hos. 14.3. Brought from Egypt by Solomon, 1 Kin. 10.28,29. 2 Chr. 9.25,28. Brought from Babylon by the Jews, Ezr. 2.66. Neh. 7.68. Symbolical, Zec. 1.8. Rev. 6.2-8. Rev. 9.17. Rev. 19.11-21. See BIT-BRIDLE-WHIP. HORSELEECH, Pro. 30.15. Mar. 11.9,10. Jno. 12.13. HOSEA, prophecies in the reign of Uzziah, &c., Hos. 1.1. HOSEN (a tunic or under-garment), Dan. 3.21. HOSHEA, 19th and last king of Israel (reigns 7 years), son of Elah, slays Pekah and succeeds him; his evil reign, 2 Kin. 15.30. 2 Kin. 17.1,2. Pays tribute to the king of Egypt, and offends the king of Assyria; Samaria besieged and the people taken captive, 2 Kin. 17.3-23. 2 Kin. 18.9-12. Hos. 10.3,7. Lev. Deu. HOSPITALITY, DUTIES TO STRANGERS. Ex. 22.21. Ex. 23.9. Lev. 19.10,33,34. 24.22. Deu. 10.18,19. Deu. 24.17,18. 26.12,13. Deu. 27.19. Isa. 58.7. Luk. 14.12-14. Rom. 12.13. 1 Tim. 3.2. 1 Tim. 5.10. Tit. 1.8. Heb. 13.2. 1 Pet. 4.9. 3 Jno. 5-8. HOSPITALITY, EXAMPLES OF: Melchizedek, Gen. 14.18 Abraham, Gen. 18.3. Lot, Gen. 19.1. Laban, Gen. 24.31. Jethro, Ex. 2.20. The old man of Gibeah, Jud. 19.16-21. The widow of Zarephath, 1 Kin. 17.10. The Shunamite, 2 Kin. 4.8. Elisha, 2 Kin. 6.22. Israelites, í Chr. 12.39. Job, Job 31.32. Lydia, Act. 16.15. Publius, Melitans, Act. 28.2. Gaius, 3 Jno. 5-8. See FEASTS STRANGERS-INHOSPITALITY. HOSTAGES, taken by Jehoash from Judah, 2 Kin. 14.14. 2 Chr. 25.24. Act. HOURS, Dan. 4.33. Dan. 5.5. Of the day, reckoned from sunrise to sunset, 12 in number, Jno. 11.9. Mat. 20.3-12. Mat. 27.45,46. Mar. 15.25,33,34. Jno. 1.39. Jno. 4.6,52. 2.15. Act. 3.1. Act. 10.3,9. Of the night, Act. 23.23. Symbolical, Rev. 8.1. Rev. 9.15. HOUSE. Built of bricks, stone, and timber, and plastered, Lev. 14.40-45. Song 1.17. Isa. 9.10. Gen. 11.3. Ex. 1.11-14; of earth, Eze. 8.8. Eze. 12.5. Built on town-walls, Jos. 2.15. Of several stories, Act. 20.9. Had flat roofs, see BATTLEMENT. Had porches, Jud. 3.23. 1 Kin. 7.6,7; and courts, Est. 1.5. Chambers in, Gen. 43.30. Summer parlour of, Jud. 3.20; or loft, 1 Kin. 17.19. Inner chamber, 1 Kin. 22.25. Little chamber, 2 Kin. 4.10. Upper chamber, 2 Kin. 1.2. 2 Kin. 23.12. 2 Sam. 18.33. Act. 1.13. Act. 9.37. Act. 20.8. Guest-chamber, Mar. 14.14. Were painted and inlaid, Jer. 22.14. Eze. 8.10,12. Fires in, Isa. 30.14. Jer. 36.22,23. Chimneys of, Hos. 13.3. Texts of scripture on, Deu. 6.9. Supplied with water, see WELLS. Leprosy found in, Lev. 14.34-53. Laws regarding the sale and mortgage of, Lev. 25.29-33. Neh. 5.3. Dedicated, Deu. 20.5. Psa. 30 (title). Illustrative, 2 Sam. 7.18. 2 Kin. 20.1. Job 30.23. 2 Cor. 5.1. 1 Tim. 3.15. Heb. 3.2. HUMILITY, Deu. 9.7. Forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. Deu. 15.15. Remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt. Job 22.29. When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. Job 25.5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. 6. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm? Psa. 9.12. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble. commandments. Pro. 11.2. is wise. Pro. 13.10. Pro. 15.33. 18.12. Pro. 16.19. With the lowly is wisdom. He that hearkeneth unto counsel With the well advised is wisdom. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. Pro. 22.4. By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life. Pro. 27.2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. Pro. 29.23. Honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. Pro. 30.32. If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth. Ecc. 5.2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men Isa. 29.19. The meek also shall increase shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Isa. 41.14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob. Isa. 51.1. Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Deu. 32.7. Isa. 57.15. I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Isa. 66.2. To this man will I look, even to trembleth at my word. him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and Jer. 45.5. Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not. Eze. 16.63. Remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God. Hos. 13.1. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel. Mic. 6.8. Walk humbly with thy God. Zeph. 3.11. I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. 12. I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. Mat. 5.3. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Luk. 6.20. Mat. 11.29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Mat. 18.2. Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3. And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Mar. 9.33-37. Luk. 9.46-48. Mat. 20.26. Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27. And whoBoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. Mar. 10.43,44. Luk. 22.26. Luk. 1.52. He hath exalted them of low degree. Luk. 10.21. Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Luk. 14.10. When thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, Go up higher. v. 11. Pro. 25.6,7. Luk. 17.10. When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. Luk. 18.13. The publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Mat. 23.12. Jno. 13.14. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. 15. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. Rom. 12.3. Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly. 10. In honour preferring one another. 16. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. 1 Cor. 1.28. Base things of the world, and should glory in his presence. 1 Cor. 10.12. Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 13.4. Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. Gal. 5.26. Let us not be desirous of vainglory. Eph. 4.2. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love. Eph. 5.21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. God, holy and beloved, humbleness of mind, meekness. Jas. 1.19. Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. Jas. 3.1. Be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. Jas. 4.7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. v. 6,10. 1 Pet. 5.5. Ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. HUMILITY EXEMPLIFIED: Gen. 18.27. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. v. 32. Gen. 32.10. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant. Ex. 3.11. Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? Ex. 4.10. O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 2 Sam. 7.18. Who am I, O Lord God? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? 19. And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God? 1 Chr. 17.17. 1 Kin. 3.7. I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in. 2 Chr. 1.10. 1 Chr. 29.14. Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 2 Chr. 2.6. Who am I then, that I should build him an house? Ezr. 9.13. less than our Thou our God hast punished us iniquities deserve. Job 9.14. How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15. Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. Job 10.15. Job 33.6. I also am formed out of the clay. Job 40.4. Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. 5. Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. Job 42.4. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak. 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. 6. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Psa. 8.3. When I consider thy heavens, 4. What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Job 7.17,18. Psa. 144.3,4. Psa. 73.22. So foolish was I, and ignorant : I was as a beast before thee. Psa. 131.1. Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: Phil. 2.3. Let nothing be done through strife Psa. 141.5. Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head. Pro. 30.2. Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. 3. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Isa. 6.5. Woe is me! for I am undone : because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Isa. 38.15. I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. Jer. 1.6. Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child. Dan. 2.30. This secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living. Gen. 41.16. Act. 3.12. Mat. 3.14. John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? Jno. 1.27. He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. HUNTING, Lev. 17.13. Job 38.39. Pro. 12.27. Of deer, &c., Gen. 27.3,5,33. The lion, Job 10.16. Nimrod a great hunter, Gen. 10.9; also Ishmael, Gen. 21.20; and Esau, Gen. 25.27. Gen. 27.30. HUR. Upholds the hands of Moses, Ex. 17.10. Joint-judge with Aaron, Ex. 24.14. a king of Midian, Num. 31.8. Jos. 13.21. HUSBANDMAN. Illustrative, Jno. 15.1. 1 Cor. 3.9. See AGRICULTURE. HUSBANDS. Duties of, Gen. 2.18,23,24. Gen. 24.67. Gen. 29.20. Deu. 24.5. 1 Sam. 1.8. Pro. 5.18,19. Ecc. 9.9. Mal. 2.14,15. 1 Cor. 7.14,16. Eph. 5.23-33. 1 Cor. 11.3. Col. 3.19. 1 Tim. 5.8. 1 Pet. 3.7. See MARRIAGE. HUSHAI. David's companion; his opposition to Ahithophel, 2 Sam. 15.32-37. 16.16-19. 2 Sam. 17. 1 Chr. 27.33. 2 Sam. (marg.). A carob pod, Luk. 15.16. HUSK, Num. 6.4. A scrip, 2 Kin. 4.42 HUZZAB (marg., that which was established). A name of Babylon, Nah. 2.7. HYMENIUS, a false teacher denounced by Paul, 1 Tim. 1.20. 2 Tim. 2.17. HYMN. See PSALMS-PRAISE. HYPOCRISY. Job 8.13. The hypocrite's hope shall perish: 14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. 15. He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. v. 16-19. Job 13.9. As one man mocketh another, not come before him. Jno. 3.29. He that hath the bride is the do ye so mock him? 16. An hypocrite shall bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. increase, but I must decrease. 30. He must Rom. 7.18. I know that in ine (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing. 1 Cor. 15.10. By the grace of God I am what I am I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 2 Cor. 3.5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. 2 Cor. 12.7. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. Eph. 3.8. Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given. Phil. 3.12. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. 13. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended. Phil. 4.12. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. 1 Tim. 1.15. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. 1 Cor. 15.9. Rev. 4.10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne. HUMILITY, EXAMPLES OF: Moses, Ex. 18.24. Gideon, Jud. 6.15. Ruth, Ruth 2.10. Saul, 1 Sam. 9.21. David, 1 Sam. 18.18-23. Elihu, Job 32.4-7. Elizabeth, Luk. 1.43. Cornelius, Act. 10.33. Paul, Rom. 1.12. Rom. 16.7. Peter, Luk. 5.8. 1 Pet. 5.1. John, Rev. 1.9. See CHRIST'S MEEKNESS-REPENTANCE. Job 15.31. trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recomLet not him that is deceived pence. 33. He shall shake off his unripe grape olive. 34. For the congregation of hypocrites as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the shall be desolate. Job 20.5. The joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Job 27.8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, his soul? 9. Will God hear his cry when though he hath gained, when God taketh away trouble cometh upon him? 10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? Job 31.33. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom. That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. Job 34.30. Job 36.13. The hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. 14. They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean. Psa. 50.16. Unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. mouth, and they lied unto him with their Psa. 78.36. They did flatter him with their tongues. 37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. Pro. 21.27. The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind? Isa. 1.13. Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 15. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear your hands are full of blood. v. 11-14. Isa. 66.3-5. Isa. 9.17. The Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. Isa. 10.6. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge. Isa. 29.13. This people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men. 15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16. Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay. Isa. 32.5. The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. 6. His heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord. Isa. 33.14. The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Isa. 48.1. Which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2. For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel. Isa. 58.2. They seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. 3. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Isa. 58.4. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Isa. 61.8. I hate robbery for burnt-offering. Jer. 3.10. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord. v. 11. Jer. 5.2. Though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely. Jer. 6.20. To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. Jer. 7.8. Ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. 9. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 10. And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Jer. 12.2. Thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins. Jer. 42.20. Ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it. v. 21,22. Eze. 14.7. Every one which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself: 8. And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. v. 4. Eze. 20.39. Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. Eze. 5.11. Hos. 8.13. Hos. 9.4. Eze. 33.30. The children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord. 31. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. 32. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. Hos. 6.4. O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. Hos. 7.14. They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: 16. They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow. Hos. 8.2. Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. Hos. 10.1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself. 4. They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Hos. 11.12. Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit : Amos 5.21. I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 23. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. v. 22,25-27. Mic. 3.11. 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? Zec. 7.5. When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? 6. And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? Mal. 1.6. If I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, |